When I'm running, I don't have a camera. So tonight Kerry & Emily went on a bike ride with me & the camera around the greenbelt so I could show you where I spend a lot of time lately. By mid-August, I will have run to Butte, so to speak.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Where I Run
When I'm running, I don't have a camera. So tonight Kerry & Emily went on a bike ride with me & the camera around the greenbelt so I could show you where I spend a lot of time lately. By mid-August, I will have run to Butte, so to speak.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Mama Mia, it's about time!
I ran with an mp3 player for the first time ever today. Revolutionary!
In the past, I've had this Sony armband radio, with 10 preset stations, so I could switch from station to station til I found a good song to run to. But you know, sometimes there's just not a good song being broadcast anywhere in range, and it can be a little unwieldy to run with an entire radio on your arm. I haven't used it at all this summer, and I have missed running with music.
Today at the end of my 5.31 miles, I felt like the time had flown by and for the first time this summer I felt like I could have actually run a little further than I had planned on going. And it was even a Monday! Emily had helped me upload what little music we could quickly find on this computer: Taylor Swift, ABBA, and couple of random Tim McGraw songs. (This does not count the 850,000 songs that Steven has on here that I have never heard of/could never run to.) By the next time I run, I will have found the rest of the music I know I have around here - all of my favorite running songs that will help get me down the road, and around the greenbelt, as the mileage picks up on the way to St. George.
Running to the radio, you only ever hear current pop and country hits, so this was the first time I think I ever ran to ABBA. It was good fun, but the best beats-per-minute song turned out to be that Tim McGraw song with the BBQ stain on his white T-shirt. That song got me through the last quarter mile, and also made me think that this coming labor day weekend will be the one when Steven is 17.
The first marathon I trained for in 2001, the song that was played most often was Drops of Jupiter, so that always reminds me of running. I'll be needing that one, as well as the most played song of marathon training 2002, Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent. Then there was the summer of Sheryl Crow. My playlist will have to include Legs by ZZ Top, Runnin' on Empty by Jackson Browne, and Foo Fighters, Learn to Fly (the song that was playing as I ran the morning Adam flew home from his mission.) More will occur to me. Songs that are slower I still like, if doubletime turns out to be a good running pace. Feel free to suggest songs to me that suggest running to you!
I'm really excited as I train to feel myself getting faster and stronger each day, even if by most standards I am neither fast nor strong. The other day the manager of the Eastern Idaho State Fair was walking around the lake, and I as ran past she said "Good for you!" to me. Yeah, Doris, good for me!
In the past, I've had this Sony armband radio, with 10 preset stations, so I could switch from station to station til I found a good song to run to. But you know, sometimes there's just not a good song being broadcast anywhere in range, and it can be a little unwieldy to run with an entire radio on your arm. I haven't used it at all this summer, and I have missed running with music.
Today at the end of my 5.31 miles, I felt like the time had flown by and for the first time this summer I felt like I could have actually run a little further than I had planned on going. And it was even a Monday! Emily had helped me upload what little music we could quickly find on this computer: Taylor Swift, ABBA, and couple of random Tim McGraw songs. (This does not count the 850,000 songs that Steven has on here that I have never heard of/could never run to.) By the next time I run, I will have found the rest of the music I know I have around here - all of my favorite running songs that will help get me down the road, and around the greenbelt, as the mileage picks up on the way to St. George.
Running to the radio, you only ever hear current pop and country hits, so this was the first time I think I ever ran to ABBA. It was good fun, but the best beats-per-minute song turned out to be that Tim McGraw song with the BBQ stain on his white T-shirt. That song got me through the last quarter mile, and also made me think that this coming labor day weekend will be the one when Steven is 17.
The first marathon I trained for in 2001, the song that was played most often was Drops of Jupiter, so that always reminds me of running. I'll be needing that one, as well as the most played song of marathon training 2002, Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent. Then there was the summer of Sheryl Crow. My playlist will have to include Legs by ZZ Top, Runnin' on Empty by Jackson Browne, and Foo Fighters, Learn to Fly (the song that was playing as I ran the morning Adam flew home from his mission.) More will occur to me. Songs that are slower I still like, if doubletime turns out to be a good running pace. Feel free to suggest songs to me that suggest running to you!
I'm really excited as I train to feel myself getting faster and stronger each day, even if by most standards I am neither fast nor strong. The other day the manager of the Eastern Idaho State Fair was walking around the lake, and I as ran past she said "Good for you!" to me. Yeah, Doris, good for me!
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