Actually, I had a different taken and appreciated the speed the speaker used.  The reason is that I want to be exposed to some spoken Spanish at (..close to..) the speed at which native Spanish people speak.  There is not a lot of opportunity to find transcripts of Spanish spoken at speed.  To be honest, I didn't get much of it at first but after listening once, I read the text, looked up some of the words I didn't know and then listened again.  I picked up a bit more and I expect to repeat the above multiple times.  Although much of the Spanish is beyond my level, I want to be challenged!

Thanks Shui for the Tip. 

I agree that a really slow reading would defeat the aim of the exercise.  But something slower that one could read and listen to AT THE SAME TIMEwould be helpful.  Really Aurélie's method is good on the French program...

I once spoke Spanish "competently" so you can see that I would not want something too slow.