Kitty's Scratch Pad

I want to ride my bicycle...

I just bought my first big girl road bike yesterday and now I am feeling all growed up!  Only bummer is I won't actually get to ride it until two weeks from now.  Once the shop has her all tricked out with new pedals, handle bars and fenders, she will be ready to go! 

I spent a bunch of time online figuring out the differences between bikes.  I knew my price-point, learned about components, materials and as much bike jargon as possible so I wouldn't feel like a total dork walking in.  In the end, I bought a 2009 Scott Contessa Speedster 30.  I actually narrowed the search down on Sunday to the equivalent 2010 model.  I didn't want to buy anything until I did some more "research".  On Monday I moseyed over to REI to gander at their selection.  I was delighted to see the bike I had been happy with on Sunday was available and it since it was last year's model, it was even cheaper!

So all that is left is for me to decide on shoes.  After that I should be ready to roll.

Did I mention we are doing the STP???? 

What should I run to?

For the past four weeks Alex and I have been building up our runs by about a 1/2 mile each week.  And each week I find myself in the same predicament...what do I add to my running mix to keep me going while not getting bored of what is already on there?  The latter is fairly easy, I try to trick my brain by mixing the songs up each week.  That way my body doesn't associate one song with a specific point in my run.  The bigger challenge is finding new tunes.  Zune has a pretty cool thing in their marketplace called Channels and they designate a few of them to fitness and update them each week with songs based on bpm.  This has really helped me discover new stuff as well as plug into oldies but goodies.  At this point in our training, we are only running 1/2 the distance we will be doing in June.  I think I have my work cut out for me.  Needless to say, this is by far one of the most important things in my training regimen.  Without music, I wouldn't be able to run! 

Current Running Mix - 72 minutes

Get Ready for This - 2 Unlimited

I Bet You Look Good on the Dance floor - Arctic Monkeys

Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon

SexyBack - Justin Timberlake

Kids - MGMT

Paper Planes - M.I.A.

Positive Tension - Bloc Party

Single Ladies - Beyonce

Time to Pretend - MGMT

I Drove all Night - Celine Dion (no laughing)

Helicopter - Bloc Party

Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes

Kill Your Television - Ned's Atomic Dustbin

Supermoves - Overseer

You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive

Paradise City - Guns N' Roses

Talk Dirty To Me - Poison

Best of You - Foo Fighters