I'm doing a 10k

Thanks for reading! You probably found this from my Facebook page, or you've spent enough time on the internet that this was all that's left. Congrats. I think.

I did something I've never done before - forced myself into a goal. Literally, I didn't want to do it. I just knew it would be worth it. I signed up for a 10K road race on November 2nd and come hell or high blood pressure, I'm going to run this race. This blog will allow you to follow my exercise progress and do many other things: See how terribly out of shape I am, allow you to call me out when I skip a day, provide good conversation over beers with your friends about the number of ways that I will fail, or maybe just cheer me on.

I've been getting out there over the last 10 days without much structure, just getting my brain psyched up about the pain my body will endure for the next 2 months. However, Labor Day weekend brought the 10 week.... shit nope, 9 week mark until race day. Well, that's an unfortunate miscalculation.

So, lets get down to brass tacks:
9/2
2.5 mile run
28:45
11:30/mile
(1st mile, 10:00ish)

I haven't been able to get up to running a 2.5 non-stop. I think it's because of 2 reasons: (1) I could stand to drop some extra weight around the digestive system, and (2) I don't have enough songs on my playlist that tell me to just effing run. Right now, I wait for AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill to make its appearance on my iPod before I feel the motivation of Robert Downey Jr jumping from a plane and landing on the expo stage in Iron Man 2 to keep the pace. Yeah, this is the exact thing that goes through my head. Can't argue with what works.

So, I need songs that will kick my ass when I'm losing steam. Open to submissions!

JC