Well I was tripping down the street early this morning...

Sorta funny to me that my title is the first line of my 'theme song' from yesterday's post because I 'tripped' all the way into the gym this morning.

It's been hard to go to the gym every day this week.
This morning was no better. As if having Bronchitis last week wasn't bad enough, I think I'm getting a head cold so when the alarm went off at 6am, I really just wanted to go back to sleep!
2 squirts of nasonex per nostril, 2 puffs from my inhaler, laced up the shoes and out the door.

Driving to the gym I was NOT motivated...but I WAS still driving to.the.gym.

Parked and grabbing my iPod and headphones...BLAST! My headphone cord is wrapped up in a strap from my mini purse...where are the scissors. (In hindsight I'm glad there were no scissors because I would've been miffed if I had cut the strap!)
'Oh forget it! I'll just listen to the music in the gym and walk instead of interval train today'
No..try again

(inhale/exhale) Success, cord unwrapped...now where the heck did my iPod go? It was RIGHT here in my lap. You're NOT gonna win obstacle fairies...I'm GOING into the gym!
*doors open, frantically searching for iPod* Turns out it's in the console, right where I put it the first time I gave up on my headphones...
In the gym, stretching and feeling my itchy eyes and scratchy throat creeping up on me...

At this point I decide to do the best I can with my intervals...maybe walk/speed walk rather than pushing myself to run...I'll run if I can, but it's not the end of the world if I don't....just finish the 30 minutes

What a concept
Just finish

14:17 minutes into my session and "attention gym members, there is a my color/my car in the parking lot with it's lights on.
OH GAWD are you kidding me?
What EV. I'm finishing my 30 minutes and if it dies the hub will just have to come get me
I'll be late to work but I'm finishing my session.

So I did the 30 minutes, intervals of walk/speed walk...and I ran some
Covered the same distance (just about) then went home.

Yeah...covered the same distance
And I was happy with that

HUH WHA? I totally figured I would be miffed that my running efforts seem to be for naught because I can WALK the same dang distance.

So I've come to the realization that the idea of RUNNING (okay who am I kidding, Jogging) my first 5K doesn't have to be the goal. Just finish!

And I'm okay with this

In fact I'm really comfortable with this

It doesn't mean I'm going to totally slack the training

But I don't have to go balls to the wall to be the best right out of the gate

WHOAAAAAA what who are you and what have you done to my brain?

I ALWAYS have to be the best right out of the gate.

No, that's not me...that's JOAN, not Babs

and I'm still Takin care of Babsness.

and totally looking forward to my race.

And it turns out...it wasn't my car afterall!
:)

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What's Your Theme Song?

So I've been doing stuff that's good for me, even when I don't feel like it.
Today I dressed for the gym after my shift AT work again so that I was already in my gym clothes for the drive home.
While I was changing, I thought to myself, "Yeah, I'm taking care of Babs."

Now if you know me personally, you KNOW I can turn anything into a song and I immediately started singing (in my head...)

Takin care of Babsness

Every day

Takin care of Babsness

Every way

I be takin care of Babsness

She's alright

Takin Care of Babsness

and workin over time

WORK OUT!

Then I giggled...coz it was silly...but I'm still singing it :)

But...If I had to pick a theme song, it would be this one by Concrete Blonde
If I were on Idol, I'd sing this song (never mind the seemingly mocking reference to still being in Hollywood)
It's what I listen to at the gym or in the car or sing out loud to!

Well I was tripping down the street early this morning

And the psychic lady pointed at me

She said come on in and I gave her my money

Said tell me, tell me, what you see

And she said she saw the angels dancing with me

Dancing to the beat of my feet down the street

She said she saw the angels dancing with me

Keep on, keep on, keep on now

Still in Hollywood

Oh I thought I'd be out of here by now

Still in Hollywood

My, my I'm running on a wheel and I don't know why

I don't know why

And I ran into Tommy Pomy

What a goddamned phony

Had a new fish on the line

Well the last one left with the last bad cheque

The only good one that he ever had died

I gotta live and live, I gotta learn to forgive

You know that everybody's gotta right

But theres evil all around in this broken down city

Its a twenty four hour fight

Still in Hollywood

Oh wow I thought I'd be outta here by now

Still in Hollywood

My, my I'm running on a wheel and don't know why

Still in Hollywood

Oh wow I thought I'd be outta here by now

Still in Hollywood

My, my, my I'm running on wheel

and don't know, don't know, don't know why

So let's me and you go get a new tattoo

We can hop on the harley and cruise

We can start at the pier and share a beer

Head out to the desert

I can feel it from here

Ride all the way to where the lizards play

Riding on, and on, and on

Theres a million stars it'll blow you away

It's all so Concrete Blonde

Still in Hollywood

That's right, you know we can ride it out all night

Still in Hollywood

Hey, hey, hey I got to, gottaway, gotta getaway yeah

Still in Hollywood

My, my, my yes I'm glad to be alive

Still in Hollywood

Mama gonna be sombody, someday, sometime

Still in Hollywood

Oh yeah

Oh I wanna get out alive

Don't you know why

Oh I'm doin fine

Oh this is why

Oh wanna be out of here by now...

(What's a matter with you young man
Going to Hollywood, gonna be a big shot
That towns gonna suck you up and spit you out
You ain't gonna have a pot to piss in
Don't come back to me for a job
You made your bed, now sleep in it...)  


Gee...kinda funny how much this voice over sounds like something JOAN would say!