Get-Pumped-Up-and-Drag-Your-Ass-Out-the-Door Song of the Day

We all have those days, no matter how much you really love to run, when lacing up those shoes, opening up the door and hitting the road seems less desirable than sitting through a marathon of Two and a Half Men reruns. Sometimes, you need that little extra push to get you ready to conquer the asphalt (or treadmill, or trail...you get the idea).

With that in mind, I introduce to you the first Get-Pumped-Up-and-Drag-Your-Ass-Out-the-Door Song of the Day. The purpose of the Get-Pumped-Up-and-Drag-Your-Ass-Out-the-Door Song of the Day is to turn you on to some music that gets me moving, gets my heart racing and, most importantly, gets my ass out the door! I can only hope that it will do the same for you.

Oh, and I know "Of the Day" categories are generally posted daily, but this one won't be. I'll add these songs as I end up using them, in the hopes that someone else will be driven by the music.

Our first installment is "Livin' & Rockin'" by 311. From the opening electronic beat to the speed punk verses and burning guitar riffs, this song is two minutes and 45 seconds of pure adrenaline. If it doesn't get you fired up, you don't have a pulse.

Livin' & Rockin' - 311
Soundsystem, 1999
Volcano Records

This is your brain...

This is your brain. This is your brain on runs.

Well, not your brain. It's actually my brain.

Since starting to run on a consistent basis more than two years ago, I have realized that I do some of my most productive, least destructive, and overall just plain brilliant (relatively speaking) thinking while running. Maybe it is the rhythm of pounding on the pavement that puts my mind into a focused trance. Maybe it is just a chance to unwind and escape from the day. Whatever it is, running has become, for me, the best place (other than the toilet) to sort out my thoughts.

Hence, this blog. Everyone has a blog now, and I love a good bandwagon, so I thought I'd hop right on. What better way to purge my thoughts than to draw attention to them on the Internet? Everyone wants to read what I have to think, right? Technology is awesome.

(I am working on inventing a sarcasm font for the purposes of this blog...I really don't think that highly of myself.)

So, if you feel like following along, enjoy. You might laugh (even though I am probably not as funny as I think I am) or you might learn something. Hell, you might even just find a new band to listen to or a new race to enter.

Or, you might just chuckle that the title of this blog sounds like slang for diarrhea.

Really, that's what this all amounts to, anyway: mental diarrhea. I think it, it comes out. Stick around if you can stomach it, and, just like any run, enjoy!