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I’m a Loser, Baby (about music, see what I did here?)

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So, I don’t really listen to a lot of music. I mean, I do, when I’m at work and when I’m just chillin’ in my room, but I don’t keep up on it very much. So I listen to a lot of the same stuff that I did in high school, or Pandora does a great job introducing me to some new stuff by matching what I tell it I already like. (Does that sentence make sense?)

Anyway. I’m sitting here avoiding getting ready for work and a song comes on my Pandora and I realize I like it! and I’ve heard it before! But I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where I know it from. It sounds different than the last time I heard it. It’s not necessarily better or worse, just different. And then I realized that what I’m missing from this version a couple high school students dancing and singing around with lockers behind them. Yep, Glee is who introduced me to that song.

It’s amazing how media shifts, changes and influences our lives. Way to go New Directions, you’ve beat my non-hip ass at music once again. I think I need to buy and I-pod and get someone who is up to date on all that stuff to load it with good running/work out music. I currently run and lift to the beat in my own head and if you know me at all that’s not a very steady one! You can buy me one here.

 

ANYONE else have this problem???

Nothing is better than progression.

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 I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller

Last week I led the Ladies Group Run that leaves from my store; it was my first time leading it and the girls that came along were a perfect balance of what I needed. One girl was super chatty and kinda fast, (me? not so much, I’m a good listener and slow running partner,) the other was quiet and a bit slower than me. So it was basically a Sloan sandwich up the trails of decent conversation about what we do, why we run, what we were hungry for for dinner…etc.

One of the girls had never run for more than 30 minutes. The group runs are typically an hour and I, some how, after fitting her for shoes that afternoon, convinced her to come back that evening for the run. As we climbed the final climb, taking those little steps that seem so inefficient but are necessary to make it to the top, I called the new girl out. I told her now that she’s done this run she knows she can do it, there for she can’t give up the next time she tries. (And I made her promise to try again soon.)

This girl could see herself progress, which is really one of the best feeling ever. We can only accomplish progression by ourselves, it’s you that pushed yourself to finish and so you only have yourself to thank! (How cool is that?!) She was so stoked and proud of herself, I could see her smiling at what she had just accomplished.

At the end of the run we all exchanged e-mail addresses, promised to get another run in soon. Sometimes seeing someone else push themselves is just enough motivation to jump back on the band wagon of pushing yourself. I love absorbing motivation from other people and using it for my own benefit—I feel myself progressing and it’s amazing.

I like getting vitamin D naturally

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I’m so happy I did my long (ish) run yesterday. Sunshine, warmth and mountains is all I needed to make my one-day off really wonderful!

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Nothing profound happened. I actually didn’t feel that great and hiked a lot of it but getting to the top was totally worth it. Every time my friend Jennie and I go for a great trail run we end up looking at the mountains and yell “THIS is why we live here” Ashland is beautiful!

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