Yesterday afternoon I laced up my sneakers for what was supposed to be a quick run before heading out to a friend's house for dinner.
The plan, an easy 4 mile recovery run with 6-100 meter pick ups.
The outcome, a speedy 6 mile run at 7:20 pace with 9-100 meter-ish pick ups, and a few tears.
That's right, I totally cried on my run. This is a rarity and I think it has only happened three times before yesterday. Once, on my first ever 20-miler with about 3 miles to go I just couldn't take it anymore and started sobbing. The second and third times happened towards the end/at the end of both the Fargo Marathon and Grandma's marathon. Those were tears of joy.
Yesterday's tears were of the frustrated type.
What brought them on? A few stressful weeks of work/life and actually listening to the lyrics of Katy Perry's Firework song.
I listened to the song over and over again while pounding all of the stresses of life out on the good old country road.
It helped, if not only for the time being, but I came home feeling like a new woman. I think this song needs to be my theme song for the next few weeks/months while I try to strike a better balance in my life.
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
spend my iTunes gift card
Back in December Nic and I both got $15 gift cards to iTunes - best gift ever, right? My iPod is in serious need of new music, but I just can't commit/decide what songs to download.
So spend my iTunes gift card for me, please!
What are your "power" songs?
What song could you listen to over and over and over again while running/working out?
What song do you strategically place in your playlist so that it will *hopefully* play the last few minutes of your race and as you are crossing the finish line? (What? I can't be the only person who does this....)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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