October 24th, 2007

Today I discovered three new great training songs.
RESPECT
THE HUSTLE
and HARDER TO BREATHE by maroon five.

All three of these randomly played on my ipod this morning and each are perfect for different reasons.
RESPECT has the PERFECT walking tempo...go ahead, sing it in your head and walk around the room...keeps ya movin..plus the lyrics make you tougher and you can work harder to them.
similarly tempoed is "its rainin men" but that didn't play this morning so I can't say anything about it.
The Hustle has very few words to motivate you, but there is something about a chorus of people whispering "DO IT!" in your ear that makes you work better. Plus in High School Coach Boyd would always yell HUSTLE!! So when the chorus yells "DO THE HUSTLE" I'm instantly driven back to that time, and simultaneously scared to death.
Harder to Breathe is a relatively good running pace, though a little on the slow side. The best part about the song while training are the words.
Check it:
When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love
You'll understand what I mean when I say
There's no way we're gonna give up
And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe

the irony is, that song can actually make you think its getting harder and harder to breathe...when really...the longer you train, the easier and easier breathing becomes.


Anyway 2.5/walking/39:38/ my right leg still hurt, but I really think its the over tilted road. Once the time changes I'll be able to go back into the neighborhood again. which I think might be considerably flatter.

See ya tomorrow!

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Anonymous said…
Today I went to spinning class for 35 minutes. That is 5 minutes longer than I lasted on my first time, last week. And I didn't sit down as much. I'm going back Friday!

She played a lot of remixes. One really good U2 one but I can't recall it right now.
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