Ipod froze up!  Help

I am hoping someone might give me some advice. I was out jogging. I had my new Video Ipod playing along. All of a sudden it just stopped and froze with about .20 left on a song. It was just plain stuck. After about 10 minutes it turned itself off and I was able to restart it. Any thoughts why this might have ahppened?
Thanks
Mark Gray

Mark: I personally wouldn't advise jogging with a hard drive based iPod. The exagerated body movement may cause the drive heads to bump across the drive surface damaging sectors that could lead to the early demise of the drive and therefore your iPod. You may be lucky and have gotten away with it. The iPod may have paused and stuck because the drive heads did skipped and stuck and were able to reset themselves after a "cold" start-up.
Perhaps a nano or shuffle would be better for using when jogging, its not as if you can watch the Video!

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