[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.
I’ll do my elliptical, if you will. I hate that thing. Eyes the beast in the corner. Grrr… 🙂
Oh darlin’….I DESPISE the elliptical. Sad thing? I’ve used it more than my hubby…who is the one that bought it!! ~sigh~ Hate that thing…hate it….did I mention that I hate it?
Good, because I feel the same way. I find it boring and torturous!