I Better Keep Going...

This year I took up running more. I'm pretty sure every year I take up running, but this year I have actually been consistently running. I will not at all say I am runner though. I started running during the school year because it was a break from studying, good alone time, and most importantly it helped relieve stress, which I seemed to have had a double portion of my senior year! Once I got home I just kept on running, I actually started liking running and the runner's high.
 I don't call myself a runner though, because I'm a bit of, shall we say, a high maintenance runner. Real runners can run anytime and in any way. Real runners can talk, run up hills, run without music, run with people or without people. I however can only run at night, I have to have music, and I don't really like to run with people. It's hard enough to keep the oxygen flow going without talking, so I definitely don't like to talk on the few occasions that I do run with people. As far as hills go...well I'm working on it. If any of these conditions change my run just isn't that good and I usually stop and walk more. One thing is for certain though, I have to have my music, it keeps me motivated to keep going.
Earlier this summer I borrowed my sisters ipod for my run. I looked through her playlists and found one named "running music" considering that I was going to run, I figured that would be the best playlist. Boy was I right! That playlists definitely kept me running. The first song was "Wavin Flag" by K-naan. That happens to be one of my favorite songs, I can't help but move when it starts playing, and it reminds me of my time in Germany and the World Cup! Good first song to get my running started. Then the second song, Hips Don't Lie, by Shakira, at that moment I caught a glimps of my shadow, and it is true, my hips don't lie! Better keep running! The next song to come on was "Bust Your Windows" by...ahm...Glee Cast (this is my sister's okay, don't judge!) it is a good song to run to though, about a young girl getting her aggression out about a boy liking somebody else. It's easy to run to if you imagine you are running away from her!
Next song "Get Busy" Sean Paul. Which part of the lyrics are about "shaking that thing" I already had Shakira talking about my hips, and it's no lie that as I run everything feels like it is shaking. It's not the "I just ran a marathon and my legs feel like jello shaking." It's more like I just ran a mile, and the lack of caring what I eat is shaking around...yes, I better keep going! I then skip over a few songs and land on "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. Now I don't care who you are or where you are, that song comes on and you can't help but start moving! It's just the kind of song that you get all your girl friends together and no man better come near, because we are on the mountain top about what we deserve honey, and no man has any say in that circle (snap your fingers in a Z, turn around and walk away...or run up the hill that I was now approaching, cuz baby you didn't bring me down and neither is this hill!) As I talk to the imaginary man in my head who never put the ring on my finger, but I feel ya Beyonce!
Next song, Taio Cruz "Dynamite" Great song to dance to, but as I am now quite a ways into my run, as Taio is singing about how "It goes on and on and on" and "I throw my hands up in the air, saying Hey O!" I'm going yes, "this run does go on and on, and I'm about to throw my hands in the air and say HECK NO!" A few more songs go by that keep me moving, Chris Brown "Forever" Kanye West "Gold Digger" a song by Eminem. Eminem always has a lot of aggression, which aggression is good emotion to have while running, "I'm so mad I'm going to run so fast on this ground and show it who's boss! I don't care if there is a enough oxygen flowing through my lungs I'm so angry I'll show oxygen who's boss too! There's a leaf, I'm going to stomp on it!" Eminem passes by and on comes Rihanna, if anybody needs to run it's Rihanna...away from Chris Brown! Few more songs go by, finally Diddy "Coming Home" YESSS, final stretch! I'm coming home!  I had quite the run, working out all my emotions about the World Cup, being out of shape, the boy liking somebody else, being on the mountain top of singleness, pushed through and made it through my aggression against the ground, oxygen, and leafs, and ran my benefit race to free Rihanna! Now I was going home, feeling at this point more like E.T. if only I could fly away on a bike! Once I returned home, my parents seemed a bit confused when they asked about my run, and I responded with "emotional!" I told you I was a high maintenance runner. 

(I wrote this entry this summer and never posted it. I haven't ran more than a mile since the beginning of winter.)