I've Got The Fever!!!

I've got the Fever, and not the Beiber fever. (Thank goodness!) I have spring fever. It's like my mind and body have come out of hibernation with the vanishing of the snow.  Yippee! We have had some of the most beautiful spring weather lately, and it has made me actually WANT to go out and run.

 I am still so far behind that it's ridiculous, but I have great coaches and I know that they will help me succeed. :  ) Except for Mark who will probably kick my butt the next time he sees me, because he hasn't seen me in FOREVER! Sorry, Mark! : )

 Anyway, one good thing about the crappy winter weather that makes you want to stay in is that you have time to work on your playlists for when you do go back out. I now have a library of amazing body groovin', feet movin', booty shakin' playlists that will get me through my workouts. I know that there are those out there that think running is spiritual and that one should commune with nature as you work out, but I need some kind of soundtrack to my life. I am extremely motivated by music, and it often helps me push through when I want to stop. Now if I were in better shape and it wasn't such a struggle for me, I would probably go out a few times without music and be one with nature. But until that glorious day and probably beyond, I need my music/motivation.  That one last rhythm and beat that makes me continue to put one foot in front of another until I finish.

So here is my playlist for the week. Lots of oldies but goodies.

Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
La Tortura - Shakira & Alejandro Sanz
Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer
Do You Want To Touch Me (Oh Yeah) - Joan Jett
Jump Around - House of Pain
Sleeping Aides & Razorblades - The Exploding Hearts
Mercy - Duffy
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
Wind IT UP - Gwen Stefani
Up Against the Wall - Peter Bjorn & John
Animal - Neon Trees
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Under Pressure - David Bowie
Raise Your Glass - Pink
I Alone - Live
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet PeA - Amos Lee

My soundtrack, my life, mine. Now I must go and be one with my music and the spring weather. Yippe!!

My New Power Playlist

Training has been sporadic at best lately due to Snowmegedon 2011, but I have devised a new power playlist that has gotten me through the few workouts that I have done. It is as follows:

Hey Now Now - The Cloud Room
Around My Head - Cage the Elephant
Dynamite - Taio Cruz
Animal - Neon Trees
Insane In The Brain - Cypress Hill
My Body - Young the Giant
Say Hey (I Love You) - Michael Franti
The Middle -Jimmy Eat World
Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Raise Your Glass - Pink
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
B.O.B - Outkast
Home - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
You Are the Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne

There are more, but this is where I usually pass out. : ) Just kidding. This is where I usually have to go home to my wonderful family because my alloted "me" time is up. Hopefully there is no more snow to come and I can get back on track. I am so far behind that I that I worry that I won't be in shape for the marathon in May. Wish me luck!

SNOklahoma 2011

Snow! Snow! Everywhere! And I hate it. Not because it affects my training schedule, not because it is so cold that it makes my entire body ache, but because it throws off my whole chi. No really because I don't like being stuck and not be able to leave. Bleh! bleh! bleh!!! I want sunshine and happiness, but I'll settle for just sunshine right now. I can't see my car anymore, but I'm pretty sure it's that big white mound in the driveway. I need a 7-11 coffee/capp and a bagel. I need to be able to drive. I actually want to go to the gym.  Blehck! I hate snow.

Blessed Is This Life

Today is my birthday and I woke up with this song in my heart. It makes me happy. Maybe I'll add it to my running playlist.


I welcome the sun
The clouds and rain
The wind that sweeps the sky clean and lets the sun shine again
This is the most magnificent life has ever been
Here is heaven and earth and the brilliant sky inbetween

Blessed is this life and i'm going to celebrate being alive.
Blessed is this life and i'm going to celebrate being alive.
Blessed is this life and i'm going to celebrate being alive.
Blessed is this life and i'm going to celebrate being alive.

-Brett Dennen

Please Pass the BenGay

Okay, yesterday was my first official (for me) day back training and I am paying for it today. Ugh! I was perhaps I a little overzealous and went beyound the reasonable realms of what I should have done, and I am paying for it today. Not to mention the fact that the baby with the ear infection is only letting me sleep about 4 hours a night. So I feel about 80 years old today and probably smell horrible, seeing how I am covered in BenGay and Tiger Balm patches. Upside is my sinuses are clear today!  Hopefully, after class tonight I can do some serious stretching and a light workout and be back in tip-top shape. I'll let you know how it goes, if I am still able to move my fingers. : )

Peace, love, and Cheese,
 Cyndi

P.S. Go Steelers!!!

Holy amnesia, Batman!! It's been 2 months.

I have not blogged in almost 2 months. Well, I did say that the holidays were horrible for training and apparently for blogging too. So admittance is the first step to recovery, right?! Okay, so my training has been sporadic at best. Mostly... non-existent. But that is all about to change. With the exception of a current ear infection in the little one, everyone is well. We have battled colds, flu, ear, sinus, and respiratory infections, and a lupus flare that knocked me out of commission for two weeks. No MORE!!! Training begins in earnest today and may God help me.  Dear Lord, give my knees, ankles, and feet swiftness and strength. Give me the motivation to get up off the floor, couch, bed, or other comfortable reclining surface and do my runs. But mostly Lord give me good weather and healthy children. I have been such a grumpy moody lately, and if I could get in one week of really good workouts, I'm pretty sure that THAT will go away. I NEED to run. Please let me run. Amen.

P.S. See how cute they are when they are sick?!! Angels!





The Holidays: good for family, bad for training

I have not been on schedule this whole training season, and now with the holiday on Thursday, I don't see this week being the week that I jump back on schedule. But Saturday should be my saving grace. I plan to start hardcore training on Saturday and for the remainder of this season. Until then, it's turkey time!!! Hope that everyone has a great and blessed holiday. Love, Cyndi