It's Called Yah-gging...

I can't believe it's been four months since the Dublin Marathon! Wow, time flies. We've been talking a lot about what to do next (Venice? Dublin again?), but we've been slow getting back into the groove. Rich is still entering the fray after some incredibly painful and slow-healing shin problems. I have just been lazy - enjoying the holidays and hibernating with too many home-cooked meals while the winter keeps us trapped inside.

I've run a few times but am really waiting for the spring weather (as I sit and watch snow fall outside - yet again!) to kick in so I can get outside. I despise the treadmill and have only hit it about three times since Dublin. Since I've done so little running in the last four months, it really is like starting over and I needed some new inspiration. So I turned to my Twitter friends on the account I use daily (@missusP) and asked my runner friends to tell me one song they can't live without for running inspiration.



I received a ton of great new song suggestions that I would never have thought of myself - thanks everyone - and here's the new list I compiled (adding a few of my own choices - yes, I'm a bit eclectic) that got me up and out for just about six miles (and the best pace since the marathon) yesterday. I hope it inspires you, too. Oh, and please consider leaving a comment with the one song you can't live without!

• Beyonce - If I Were A Boy, Smash Into You, Single Ladies

• Britney Spears - Toxic, I'm Not A Girl/Not Yet a Woman

• Eminem and 50 Cent - Crack A Bottle

• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Bad Reputation, I Love Rock n Roll, Real Wild Child, Crimson and Clover

• Lady Gaga - Boys Boys Boys, Just Dance

• Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

• Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu, When I Grow Up

• Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

• Rihanna - Disturbia, Take a Bow, Unfaithful

• The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry

• The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl, Just What I Needed

• The Killers - Mr. Brightside

• Timbaland - Apologize

• Wolfmother - Joke and the Thief