Tuesday, June 26, 2007

On cheesy running songs

There's something about hard physical exercise that makes even the cheesiest of things seem so emotional.
Lately, one of my favorite running songs is "Lose Yourself" by Eminem. Crazy right? While I'm sitting still here writing this, I can hardly stomach the thought of piping Eminem directly into my ears.
But when I'm out on the road and I'm hot and I'm tired and I have less than a mile to go, I fast forward to this song and it is just so darn motivating. It starts with a very cheesy instrumental part, then he starts talking about how hard life is or something like that and then there's this snippet: "oh there goes gravity". I swear that gravity does let up for a split second after that line and I feel great.
Later on in the song there's some line like "feet fail me not cuz maybe the only opportunity I got". I know, I know. I hope that everyone out there is rolling their eyes. At that point I always have a little thought about how lucky I am that I have such a healthy body that always comes back from the abuse I dole out.
Inspiration can be found almost anywhere.

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