Runsong
Posted on | August 19, 2008 |
I spent most of last night playing with Soundstudio, stringing together a few songs for my run. I bought this book years ago, and have had many aborted attempts at getting a running program started for myself. And I love D - what ever I needed, he was willing to get. I have great shoes. I have a lovely Nano. I’ve got a sportsbra that makes the girls look good. But the one thing I had a hard time with was the intervals. I’m supposed to run (it’s the beginning of the program…. so don’t laugh), for 30 seconds and then walk for a minute, and I do that for half an hour. I know, it sounds kind of lame, but I really think it worked the last few times I tried it. The reason I quit running - getting up early in the morning. I’ve grown really insecure about my body, so I spent most of the last year refusing to do anything outside of the house for fear of the horror I would inflict on others.
“Is that an elephant, or a hippo running down the sidewalk?”
“I think that thunder! Oh no, it’s just that wheezy, red-faced slob running. Hope she has earthquake insurance.”
Silly, yeah I know, but it’s just what I deal with.
That being said, it’s hard to time yourself when you are supposed to be running. I tried using a stop watch to time myself, but I ended up tripping over my feet or a curb (and I had a near miss with a light post). The solution, because I’m fucking brilliant, was to throw a switch queue in the appropriate places of various songs. The result - 45.4 minutes of: Coldplay, Ladytron, Underworld, Fluke, Nelly Furtado, a song from Oceans 12 (when the Fox goes through the laser maze), Outkast, and a song from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. The queue is from a song called, of all things, “Switch” and of course it’s D&B. All in all, I am pretty pleased with it. I forced myself to warm up with the Coldplay song, and the rest of the time I varied the run time from 30 seconds to 1 full minute. It’s not sticking exactly to plan, but I thought it would be good to challenge myself a little. And once I get “used” to this runsong, I will make another, because I noticed that I started to slow down in anticipation of the switch with the last runsong I made.
So, when will I run? Tonight. If I put on my sneakers, the dogs go apeshit (or would that be beagleshit?), so it’s easier for the whole family if D accompanies me with the dogs. Puck just can’t run like that anymore. Pip will be amazing to run with, but trying to seperate the “pack” makes him a little nervous.
But right now, I have to figure out what’s for dinner…. and get some reading done.
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August 20th, 2008 @ 11:19 am
soooo… it was great to hear your voice last night… thanks for chatting. I felt good when I got off the phone with you, like it was a relief to talk to you. Knowing that you are happy where you are makes me feel pretty good too.
I have decided to put together a trip to visit… probably not till spring of next year… But I would like to see Portland before I die… so find me a good hotel and tell me what airport and all that… time to stockpile money… yippee… It will more than likely be just me, but maybe I can talk B and the kiddies in to it and we can spend an afternoon with you guys… and turn the rest into a family vacation kind of thing! I think that the kids would like it… I want to see the space needle too… (I know seattle, but how far really?) not go up in it, but see it! But we will have to see…
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August 20th, 2008 @ 11:23 am
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