Here Comes the Run Again

One of the great ironies of my popular Podrunner podcast of fixed-BPM workout music mixes is that, in the last year and a half or so, I have been so busy splitting my time between producing it and working on novels that I’ve had very little time for exercise. For most of the last couple of years I’ve gotten by on about four hours of sleep a night.

Now that the novels are published and we’ve moved to the SF Bay area, things have settled down a bit, and one of my resolutions has been to get back to working out. Not exactly great PR for the Podrunner guy to be a large soft doughy thing. In a year and a half I’ve gotten laughably out of shape. I miss doing yoga (well, actually I miss martial arts, but that’s another story. Yoga is a wonderful substitute; it’s like slow-motion martial arts).

I’d say I’ve missed running but that wouldn’t be the truth. The evil reality is that I really don’t enjoy running all that much. I’m not remotely built like a runner; I have a long torso and short legs with disproportionately strong quads that burn oxygen like mad. I run a mean 50-yard dash and then I’m done done done.

But I started up again about two weeks ago.  Ye gods.  When I was doing this regularly I was doing three miles three times a week. Clearly 18 months ago was the halcyon days of my vibrant youth, cuz two weeks after taking up running again I’m up to two whole miles, and an ugly two miles it is, too. And the only thing that gets me through this, funny enough, is the Podrunner and Podrunner: Intervals mixes. Exactly because I’m not crazy about running, there’s no way in hell I’d be out there doing it without the fixed-tempo music (and electronic dance music at that, which is always Fine By Me).

So I don’t just own the company — I’m also a client.