Today was a total fiasco that I’m not in the mood to rehash here. However, I experienced some redemption and relief tonight. Now I feel much better. I’ll probably have insomnia again though.
You know, weightlifting is a boring pain in the ass, but I really love running. And I had a fantastic run tonight. It was my fifth of the summer and the fastest time by 72 seconds. I knew it was going to be a good one cause I felt great and was looking forward to it. It was the perfect time and temperature, 10:30pm and 8 degrees Celsius. Dark and cool, baby. Just like me. I was bursting with energy from my dinner of Red Snapper, perogies and broccoli. Yum yum. For music, I listened to the best of 1992, a fine vintage of musical pop.
Music has such a huge effect on how well I run. When a good song comes on, I relax, my stride lengthens, endorphins release chemical ecstasy and I push hard and strong. It doesn’t have to be a really fast song either; I just have to feel it. It can be a little slower as long as it’s melodic with a great beat. Tonight my favorite was Wreckx ‘n’ Effect – Rump Shaker.
When I got home to take off my stylin’ two-hue, black and silver running outfit and appropriately coordinated shoes, I noticed that the white strip that runs along the bottom of each shoe was all bloody on the heel. Then I noticed my calves were bleeding profusely from about halfway up. An odd occurrence since I felt no pain as I ran. I guess my stride needs some work. Or some new shoes. Now that I’ve got my flanks washed and cleaned, there are two little hairless red spots standing out from my otherwise hairy legs. They’re like little bizzare tattoos. Oh well.
For the authentic Ancient Undergrad 1992 workout these are the tracks you need. The amount of time and extraordinary effort that went into painstakingly selecting these tracks is embarrassing. (I’ve done it right from 1976 to 2002.):
Sir Mix A Lot – Baby Got Back
Kris Kross – Jump
Wreckx ‘n’ Effect – Rump Shaker
En Vogue – My Lovin’
House Of Pain – Jump Around
Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy
Cece Peniston – Finally
Kws – Please Don’t Go
Technotronic – Move This
Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay
U2 – Mysterious Ways
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Under The Bridge
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
The Ancient Undergrad 
Interesting how did you get those wounds on your calves? Sounds a little freaky! Reminds me of one time a few years ago, I used to be a ballet dancer and danced on pointe (toe shoes-oweeee!) and one time I got a blister dancing, then it rubbed off and the shoes rubbed the skin till it was raw and bleeding badly. The blood seeped through the satin of my shoes, it was really gross, and I had to deal a few more weeks with a nasty brown spot on my shoes till they wore out. Ballet dancing=pain!
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What are perogies? Cool running story and music list. I know how it is with picking out music – takes time. I don’t know how dance teachers who put together warm-up mixes have time to do it . They always manage to pick exactly the right music for that particular activity (at least mine do). I have found that John Mayer is good for data entry and that Radiohead/(specifically ‘Ok Computer’) is not. (I can work with the former playing…I stop working and read lyrics/sing along with the latter).
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Running seems fun in theory, but painful in practice. I admire your dedication. U2 – Mysterious Ways. One person misheard the chorus as “Shamu – the mysterious whale” and now I love singing the wrong version. Try it.
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Cool list of music! I’ve been listening to ‘Stay’ compulsively lately. Heard it on net radio and couldn’t help myself.
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drink away your problems….
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weird how you got bloody calves.. how would your shoes affect your calves though?
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good list.
i felt compelled to comment because everytime i see your icon on another person’s site, i think it looks like a pair of legs of a woman wearing a pair of thongs, perched over some sort of a fertility goddess figure (ample bosoms, stomach) in the center. and then i always gasp a little and click to see, and it’s a face of a tiger.
am i completely demented?
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RYC: I think the law is to be officially enforced next month. YET you probably notice as much as I do, they don’t strictly enforce anything at the Canadian-US border unless they have to make numbers or something. Sometimes they’re a real bitch about getting into the US. I was refused once. Yet like two weeks later, they let me in. Just depends on who you get and when you go. I find the Niagara Falls bridge the easiest to go over. The one there by Detroit is a bitch. Port Huron-Sarnia isn’t so bad. Keith is getting his passport done anyway. I already have one. My picture on it looks like my face is totally red.
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In Flames: Yesss totally awesome!!Now how did you get the Garfield comic to come up on Firefox? I have Jave enabled and I still can’t see the image. Grr.
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lol, Helen of Troy’s hot.
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summer? this is not summer yet. yeah, i bled from mysterious injuries all the time, and then forget about them so that they keep busting back open. dinner sounded yummy
can’t say i agree entirely with the last. the three songs that really get me pumping are “When you were mine” -Prince, “Valerie Loves Me”- Material Issue, “Anything”- Dramarama, adn then there was another one, but i forget.
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“Dark and cool, baby. Just like me.” Heh heh.
Why were your calves bleeding? I’m confused. That doesn’t sound good. But as long as you’re okay with it, I’m okay. God, I miss running. My ass (well, my legs, rather) used to run about 25 miles a week. Lazy. Fat. Old. I dunno how to change it, but reading your running adventures here is bringing me closer to some sort of motivation. Maybe.
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