Church Of Mars...on my treadmill

Sooo I've been MIA lately...my fault I know. Lots has happened since the last time I blogged though :) I've now lost a total of 18.2lbs....this last week at weigh-in I was down 3.2lbs which pretty much blew my mind. We did do a pretty good job of trying to make our Thanksgiving meal "Dub Dub" friendly....but I was just really happy :)
I did have a week where I gained .8lbs and for a second I was kinda bummed about that. But I realized I needed to stick to and up the frequency and intensity of my exercise and not get myself down. The lyric from the song Alibi really stuck with me that next week...."I fell apart but got back up again" .....so true.
So when I run here is my play list...or what my goal of songs to get through is: Hurricane (Kanye version...sorry just straight 30stm version lovers...the Kanye one gets me moving a bit more), Closer to the Edge (this is the song that motivated me to start running in the first place), Vox Populi, Search and Destroy (looove running to this one...esp the last half of the song) and then cool down to Alibi. Some times I can only get through till the end of Vox Populi though. My goal the last week has been to get all the way through to Search and Destroy. Made it a few times...then this week I decided I really wanted to try and though Kings and Queens in after Search and Destroy...this was a lofty goal for me.
I would like to inform yall that for maybe 15 years my mantra was "I'm not a runner"...and up until about a month ago that was true. So for me to say I wanted to add another song into the playlist...it was going to be a challenge to say the least.
So today I hopped on the treadmill and by the time I got to Vox I was feeling good but was thinking I wouldn't make it to K&Q. I was pretty much assuming that Search and Destroy was going to wear me out....but surprisingly enough by the end of S&D I was so pumped that I knew I could make it to K&Q and if I got to it I knew I could make it all the way through :)

And guess what....I DID! I cannot explain to you how freaking happy I was the whole time I was running and listening to K&Q. The only feeling better than that would probably be being able to participate in Church of Mars on stage at a show. It was seriously awesome.
But for now....the treadmill is my Church of Mars.

After I finished K&Q I was ready for cool down with Alibi...yeah that didn't happen as planned. I don't have an mp3 player...well, I do - but it's on my Kindle. Yeah....I run while listening to mp3's on my Kindle....there is a nice little ares thank goodness that I can set the Kindle while I run. But anyway....the mp3 order is kinda messed up and the Kindle recognizes Closer to the Edge as the first track on the list...so it pretty much play 7 through 6. Long story short I had to listen to Hurricane again to be able to start the playlist over to get to Alibi....which worked out anyway....I increased the treadmill to a 7.5% incline and cooled down to Hurricane and Alibi.

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So the lesson learned the past few weeks is never give up and keep pushing yourself. It is SO worth it. And in honor of Church of Mars on my treadmill....here's Kings and Queens :)