So I ran a leg of a marathon relay on Sunday in Luton, that green, leafy, breadbasket of England.  My leg was 8.9 miles, which I ran in 72 minutes, so not bad.  It was sopping wet and muddy, but my relay team came 69th out of 170 teams.  Again, not bad.  My running club's A team came 4th overall.  I was running on the E team, so you get the idea...

Saw Statement of Regret at the National last night.  A tiny bit overburdened with themes, but otherwise really good.  Seeing Women of Troy next week, despite being severely warned off.  I'll let you know.

And finally, another alphabetical iPod ep, this time the five songs beginning with "And":  And I Was A Boy From School by Hot Chip (extremely wistful and beautiful dance track), And No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave (every EP should have a little Nick Cave on it), And She Was by the Talking Heads (about levitation; I always thought it'd work great with a video by the Muppets), And You Tell Me by a-ha (not a joke band anymore; if you think so, you're out of the loop), and And Your Bird Can Sing by The Beatles (which seems to have got on there by accident, but there you go).