[flickr id=”5094799890″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”]A couple of years ago I decided to try the C25k program.

Me? So  not a runner.

Still, I did fairly well. I made it three weeks in – but since I had started in September the cold weather hit and gave me a marvelous excuse to quit.

Back during that time I didn’t have a smart phone, or an iPod or anything to download that handy app and listen to what I want.  I found a couple of sites that created a download with the “run now” and “Walk now” instructions built into a set playlist.

I don’t remember any of the songs on the playlist save for one.

[amazon_link id=”B001AUEMFS” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Viva la Vida by Coldplay[/amazon_link].

I don’t know why this one sticks out, maybe because it met my pace perfectly, or because it was one song that I really liked.

Either way – any time I hear it now I remember running through the streets of my town. It is all I can think of – and I actually get the urge to go running.

I’ve recently started exercising again. Hubby bought an elliptical, I’ve been using Jillian DVD’s (I love to hate her)…and once in a while I go for a C25k run.

I want to get back into it, and I plan on it. Part of me wants to be a runner (the major part is a scared, screaming little girl that HATES running, HATES track and field, HATES sports…let me DANCE).

Once school is out. Where I can run at 7:30AM once hubs is off to work in the school parking lot across the street.

Unless I can run around the empty high school parking lot where it is flat, I am faced with running downhill first, uphill second. That about killed me first time I tried to do this LOL.

I have a feeling that when I start running again, I’ll be seeking out Coldplay on my Pandora and starting my daily run w/ it.