Consider me gone

I'm finally doing something about my less then stellar cholesterol levels. I'm doing something after several years of pleading from my physician to start getting active.

For the last week I've been getting up at 5 in the morning and walk three miles. The first time out I decided to do something my body really hates.

I jogged. I hate jogging and running. But Lake Michigan by Rogue Wave was playing in my ears and I couldn't help it. I also couldn't run for the entire 3 minutes and 13 seconds of the song. That is how pitifully out of shape I am.

So after more walking (and gasping for air) I decided to try running during Hilary McRae's Consider me Gone towards the end of the outing. I figured I would run until the end of the 4 minute 18 second song or until I got to a particular street. Whichever came first.

Here is a play-by-by of my thoughts during that run -

You were wrong from the start
Cheating your way while we were apart
You took from me more than you gave
Same old story
Too little, too late

Not bad. Nope not too bad.

Wasted time was spent throwing it all away
The pleasure's never worth the pain

Pain. Yup, starting to feel pain.

I know that you ain't gonna change
What made you think that things would stay the same?
And what will you do when you're on your own?
Won't be long
Consider me gone

Crap. Where is that street?

Woah-woah

Got your number, there's no doubt
How long did you think it'd take me to figure it out?
If I know one thing that's true
Won't waste another day depending on you

Wasted time was spent throwing it all away
The pleasure's never worth the pain

I know that you ain't gonna change
What made you think that things would stay the same?
And what will you do when you're on your own?
Won't be long
Consider me gone

Oh no. A musical bridge. When is this song going to end?

A million words I could write
But you'd still be wrong
Why don't we just stop holding on?
If I can't be strong
Then I'll go back to where I started from!

Oh NO! An instrumental solo!

This is when that little "you are such a wimp" voice suddenly woke up and started fussing at me.

"You rowed three miles in the Head of the Charles when you were 19 years old. That was pain!"

But I was 19, I reply to the voice. I'm 20 years older.

"So? You've also given birth WITHOUT AN EPIDURAL! Now THAT was PAIN!"

Wasted time was spent throwing it all away
The pleasure's never worth the pain

I know that you ain't gonna change
What made you think that things would stay the same?
And what will you do when you're on your own?
Won't be long
Consider me gone

I got to the street. The song was still playing.

I kept running.

Seven days later I ran 1/2 a mile, walked 2 miles, then ran another 1/2 mile for a total of 3 miles.

And the "you're a wimp" voice isn't quite so loud during Consider me Gone.

Got a song that inspires you to push yourself? Or just makes you smile? Do tell.