Thursday, November 08, 2007

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting

Important Life Lesson: Don't listen to The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" when you are running unless you are an Olympian. Or have a death wish.
I'm training for a 10K road race, and I was out running today when the above-mentioned song began playing on my iPod Shuffle. I have a tendency to match my pace to the tempo of whatever song is playing. I sprint when "Where the Steets Have No Name" comes on, but "Easy Like Sunday Morning" plays, and I am practically walking. Anyway, I run somewhat regularly, but I'm not exactly the picture of fitness, so I'm rocking out to the chorus when I notice that I am much more winded than I should be. I am about to keel over and admit defeat, when I realize that my legs are moving a bit too fast for my lungs. I rectified the situation before my heart gave out, but I figured that I better warn others lest they make the same mistake and nearly sucumb to the throbbing drumbeat of that deadly, deadly song.
Another dangerous song: "I Want You Back" may cause you to wave your hands like you just don't care while jogging through well-populated subdivisions.

2 comments:

Mrs. Sara said...

I can just see you blasting out the lyrics while trucking along the road. I bet passersby laughed at your duck-run and screaming "Open up my EEEEEEEEEEEAGER EYEEEESSSSSS! CAUSE I'M MR BRIIIIGHTSIIIIDE!"

*Jazz hands*

P.S. You run like a duck.

Alli said...

You're a duck. Pthhht!