Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good
Thank you Kid’s Place Live for playing Ray Parker Junior’s classic Halloween hit Ghostbusters. My son has requested the song beyond my finger count each day since he first heard those eternal words, “Who ya gonna call?”
My ears have been victim to the onslaught of 80’s rhythm mixed in a nacho cheese chorus that you just cannot help but love to hate. As the bah-nah, bah-nah, bah-nah beat pulses through the house, I turn to my husband and lip sync perfectly the best line Ray’s got, “Bustin’ makes me feel good.”
Oh yeah. That’s right Dr. Venkman and all you other parasychologists-turned-ghost-exterminators, putter up your proton packs and get ready to cross streams, bah-nah, bah-nah, “Bustin’ makes me feel good.”
What does this have to do with running? OK, since you clearly do not dabble in the paranormal and cannot read my mind, I will speak runner. Track, I am talking about Tuesday track.
My legs and lungs felt much improved today and my back stood at no worse an ache than Saturday. “If you go out faster,” Rusty starts to say and then changes his mind, “No, don’t just go out at 90 and start dropping two seconds per lap.”
Tim forgot his watch and so his trust is in my hands or new Nike Lunar Racers. Cha-chow. Lap 1, too fast. Lap 2, too fast, Lap 3, too fast. Dang, but it felt like butter and for the first time in a long time, I am not the one breaking up the sound waves with huffing lungs. Nope the boys are doing that today while my breathe cruises along with easy exhales. As the rabbit out front, the mutinous pace is all my fault. Lap 4, too fast. Lap 5, perfect. One out of six ain’t bad. Lap 6, “Bustin’ makes me feel good.”
At the finish, some boys bent over on their knees and took long deep inhales. “Bustin’ makes me feel good.” I annoyingly bounced around with a smile.
“Gee, I wish I had that energy,” Jill says.
“What, did you sleep?” Rusty asks. Yep, all the way to 3:30am…… but, “Bustin’ makes me feel good!”
What track do you run at? Is it open to the public?
Ben said this on November 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm |
We run at San Marcos Track on Tuesday mornings with the SBRUNNING GROUP. It is open to public, but the workouts are coached and there is a fee for that. You can join us for Tuesday/Saturday workouts at $60 a month through SBRUNNING. Coaches are Mike Swan and Rusty Snow (awesome both of them). Tuesday are track work either 6am or 5:30pm, but if the evening you meet at a different track. Saturdays are tempo effort and we meet in various parts of town. If you are an SBAA member and pay a yearly fee your workout prices get cut. Also, Rusty and Mike can both write your individual schedule for the week adn that costs different. Info is on the Santa Barbara Athletic Association website: sbrunning.org Hope that helps!
drea said this on November 16, 2009 at 3:31 am |