tryin' to tell you something 'bout my life

[eor]

Since we finished with the madness of moving I've been trying to get to the gym to increase my endurance and maybe trade some fat for muscle. My motivation hasn't been quite as good as I'd like, but I'm slowly building up my ability. So far I'm sticking to the treadmill, no backpack with weight, just my usual incline and pace. For the last few weeks I've been trying to finish up the session by running for 2 or 3 minutes at half the incline. Running at my normal incline would probably put me in the hospital or morgue in quick order, but half incline is doable.

If I don't listen to music I get incredibly bored and stop after a short time. I started out with my '80's mix on random, but that got old after a few weeks. I've now added a few other mixes for variety and I found the dancing songs to be a really good treadmill mix. It isn't the dance music genre, it's music either about dancing or that I might like to dance to. The pace is kind of all over the place because when you're dancing you need some slow songs to keep from keeling over. Some of the songs are a bit slow for the walking and I have to stretch my stride out not to fall off the end of the treadmill, others I have to shorten by stride. But most of them make me want to run like a horse near a train.

I want to be able to do some hiking starting in early spring and do some real mountains this summer. That's the real goal. I'd like the mountains to not hurt.

Song#	Name	Artist	Album	Track
6652	All She Wants To Do Is Dance	Henley, Don	Building the Perfect Beast	7
5790	Dance Hall Days	Wang Chung	Points On The Curve	1
5724	Dance, M.F., Dance!	Violent Femmes, The	Add It Up (1981-1993)	16
11820	Rupi's Dance	Jethro Tull	The Best Of Acoustic Jethro Tull	20
5687	The Time Warp	Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	4
3451	Peek-A-Boo	Siouxsie and the Banshees	Peepshow	1
3688	Love Shack	B-52's, The	Cosmic Thing	4
6572	My Love Is Chemical	Reed, Lou	White Nights	8
3462	Kiss Them For Me	Siouxsie and the Banshees	Superstition	1
11787	Hips Don't Lie (Featuring Wyclef Jean)	Shakira	Oral Fixation Vol. 2	3
16921	Barefootin'	Shocked, Michelle	Captain Swing Reissue	21
970	Still In Hollywood	Concrete Blonde	Concrete Blonde	4
8507	Come On Eileen	Save Ferris	It Means Everything	4
4491	Him Dancing	Throwing Muses, The	The Real Ramona	2
15586	Jenny Says	Cowboy Mouth	CMJ New Music Monthly Vol 37 Sep 1996	9
14658	San Diego	Sister Double Happiness	Buy This Used CD	15
2809	Fog Town	Shocked, Michelle	Short Sharp Shocked	11
7008	Priscilla	Vega, Suzanne	Songs In Red And Gray	8
12630	Brother Swing	Caravan Palace	Caravan Palace	9
13323	Zydeco Cha Cha	Chenier, Clifton	"Live"	1
12495	The Ballad Of The Old Black Pearl	John Byrne Band	Celtic Folk	10
13234	Devil Blues	B3s	Devil's Bluebeat	2
11644	Dingle Regatta	Pogues, The	Red Roses For Me	10
13900	Da'Ale Da'Ale (You Are My Angel) ('89 Dance Mix)	Haza, Ofra	Da'Ale Da'Ale (You Are My Angel)	1
17058	Engines Of Difference	Man Or Astro-man?	EEVIAC	8
12966	Paquet D'Epingles (Packet of Pins)	BeauSoleil	Parlez-nous a Boire	5
16187	All That Meat And No Potatoes	Armstrong, Louis	Satch Plays Fats	6
16484	Livin' In America (Fordham Road 8:00 AM)	Black 47	Fire of Freedom	1
8950	Jump Jive An' Wail	Brian Setzer Orchestra, The	The Dirty Boogie	6
15183	Palace of the King	Popa Chubby	CMJ New Music Monthly Vol 020 Apr 1995	12
17430	Lobster Pot	Half Moon Jug Band	Half Live At The Half Moon	1
1554	Closer To Fine	Indigo Girls	Indigo Girls	1
1604	Shame On You	Indigo Girls	Shaming Of The Sun	1
13105	Dancin' (7 Inch Single Version)	Kid Creole & The Coconuts	Dancin'	2
16930	Ex's & Oh's	King, Elle	Love Stuff	2
16929	Where The Devil Don't Go	King, Elle	Love Stuff	1
11690	Everyday I Love You Less And Less	Kaiser Chiefs	Employment	1
17015	Do America	Knopfler, Mark	Sailing To Philadelphia	6
17241	Quality Shoe	Knopfler, Mark	The Ragpicker's Dream	5
17245	Coyote	Knopfler, Mark	The Ragpicker's Dream	9
17544	S.O.B.	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	5
15952	Diablo Rojo	Rodrigo y Gabriela	Rodrigo y Gabriela	2
12818	Pretty Woman	Shankar Ehsaan Loy	Kal Ho Naa Ho	6
13637	Avant L'Orage	Sous Le Pont	Sous Le Pont	2
15929	Dreamy Bruises	Sylvan Esso	Sylvan Esso	2
15936	Play It Right	Sylvan Esso	Sylvan Esso	9
15933	H.S.K.T.	Sylvan Esso	Sylvan Esso	6