Thursday, July 20, 2006

And I Rannnnn

And I rannnnn/I ran so far away/I just ran/I ran all night and day/I couldn’t get away — Flock of Seagulls

Reha and I have undertaken the rather momentous journey of running a marathon. Now for you regular readers, this is old hat. I threaten to run a marathon just about every other day. But this time we are serious and are a hair or two short of halfway trained. (We did a ten mile run last Saturday, and niether one of us collapsed/puked/fell over/died. It was a Christmas miracle in July).

We have signed on with Team in Training and it’s pretty fun. Well, as fun as it can be to sweat profusely in front of semi-strangers while wearing shorts that show off your pasty white thighs. It’s a great cause that we wholeheartedly support and plus they make a tasty Gatorade mix on long run Saturdays. I’ll have more on this later, but if you’d like to contribute, please get thee here. Basically, we have signed up to fundraise money and in exchange we get free Gatorade and training. Sounds like a great deal, huh?! Well, trust me, it is. Like I said, more on that later.

What I really wanted to do was share with you my perfectly crafted Running Playlist. It’s all hooked in on my iPod Shuffle. 3.9 hours of pure inspiration. As usual, click on the thumbnail and it gets bigger.

A few explanations:

The iPod Shuffle is named “RUN LIKE HELL” which will embarass my mother and I’m likely to get a phone call from her telling me to re-name the thing. Mom doesn’t like it when I swear and even though I’m turning 40 next year, she’s always going to tell me when I’ve done something “inappropriate,” bless her Southern, proper heart.

Most of the songs either have something to do with running, either in the title or buried somewhere in the lyrics.

Hey Ya! would be “outtathere” since it’s like, so very 2003, and it kind of drives me nuts to listen to it these days, but the beat happens to match my footfalls EXACTLY. So it stays.

I know, I know, there’s a lot of Rush there. But I’m a dork, OK. Plus, how can you run a marathon and not include Marathon by Rush?

Yellow Ledbetter is only there because Reha borrows the iPod every now and then. Good song, but weird to run to. But the woman is still obsessed with the song.

Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough by Michael Jackson. Don’t give me a hard time about that one. It’s from before he went completely off the deep end, OK? Plus, it’s just a great song. All should bow before Quincy Jones, by the way.

Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd. Seems obvious. It was either that or “Comfortably Numb” and that probably wouldn’t do, if you think about it.

Kill Your Television by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin is a great running song for me. As is Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones.

Bad by U2 is a great song, period. Kind of sucky for running, frankly, but once it crescendos up 3/4 of the way through, it’s amazing.

Lust for Life by Iggy Pop. All I have to do is think about him being a freaky maniac on stage and all that energy just kind of flows into me. Yeah, I know that’s goofy and New Age-y, but I swear, it’s true.

Hammer and a Nail by The Indigo Girls. Again, this one is there for Reha, bless her granola eating, femi-nazi lovin’ heart. It’s actually a pretty decent song to run to.

Fight the Power by Public Enemy. Oh yes. It’s The Man keeping us down, my brothers and sistahs.

Anyway, I’ll have more on the Team in Training thing later and how you can help. Mostly you can help by throwing some money in my outstretched tin cup. But if you have great workout/running songs, please let me know! Anything up tempo that doesn’t have a boy band driving it is probably OK. And no Country. Or Western. (You know the joke, “There’s two kinds of music I like, sonny. Country. And Western").

1. Ditch the New Romantic* stuff, add some Neko Case and North Mississippi All-Stars and swap the Peal Jam for Sky Cries Mary and I might think you’ve been stealing my CD’s.

   * While some may claim the Simple Minds are New Romantic’s their music is of such a high caliber that they transcend the N.R. genre and label.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_romantic

   Posted by michael  on  07/21/06  at  12:07 AM

2. As a thought, Dad, I’d like to remind you that you’re an only child. Therefore you have no brothers or sistahs. Sorry to bring you down.

   Posted by Carrie  on  07/24/06  at  11:16 PM

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