The second week has been good. It's been really cold in London this week and getting myself out of the door has been quite a challenge. I ran Friday, Sunday and Tuesday and covered 17 km in a mix of walk and run. Next week I am planning to ditch the walk apart from the first 5 mins for a warm up.
I use an iPod nano with a Nike+ sensor and receiver. I only use the nano for running and until this month I hadn't updated the tunes on it for at least 2 years. I have downloaded the ministry of sound 5k tracks and all of that but I don't really like them so I've always made my own running playlists with no real genre grouping. I sometimes like to run to whole albums (or at least the fast tunes on an album) in particular I like the first 5 or 6 tracks of Take That "Progress" and the fast ones (I.e. most of) the fame monster by lady gaga. On Thursday I watched a repeat showing of the Matt Lucas in Les Mis documentary and this in addition to watching "the story of the musical" earlier in the evening inspired me to make a musicals playlist.
Once I stared to look through my iTunes it dawned on my that the musical is the ideal place to find an upbeat, inspiring, "you can do it" kind of song. I now have an hours long playlist ranging from Rodgers and Hammerstein (Oklahoma!) through Lloyd Webber, Rice and Macintosh (Evita,Superstar,Joseph) to very recent shows (Hairspray).
I ran 7k with it on Sunday and it was the best run I'd had all week. My only issue is that I want to sing along the whole time and that messes my breathing up a bit and some songs make me want to botofago mid stride - which will eventually lead to the inevitable spectacular fall so I try not to actually do that. I do allow myself the odd arm move and sung word thought I try not to be too loud.
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