Hall & Oates Cures Asthma

Well, I mean, this statement hasn't been evaluated by the FDA or anything, but it has worked for me.

I think the next few posts will be about H&O - it's officially H&O week on this blog! 

But first, let me tell you about this important life-saving information.  If you have asthma, you have to become a control freak in order to manage it.  Your airways are already inflamed and irritated and stress or allergens or exercise can make them close up.  A lot of people have a hard time with the humidity in FL, but it has kicked my asthma's ass.  (When I tried to run in Denver I thought I would die, mostly because I am not an Olympian like all of the other people running around in Colorado.  It's true.  That's where they go to train.  And/or die.)  Also, since I don't have any annoying coaches yelling at me to do line drills, I'm able to leave "sprinting" until the end of my run, because if I do it too early, I'm done.

Oh yeah, I'm rambling.  I have too many H&O stories floating around in my head to concentrate on this one.   Focus.  So yeah, in addition to controlling my pace, I also have to keep negative thoughts at bay.  Now, spite is a huge motivator for me.  Huge.  I love doing things out of spite; it's healthy for me.  But if I have any sort of negative thoughts when I'm running, you know, like if some skinny girl in just a sports bra, running with her hair down while talking on a cell phone passes me, I get pissed, and then I can't breathe.  And if I'm on the treadmill and I'm doing intervals and the incline starts to make that death sound it makes when it's going up to a 45-degree angle, or the conveyor belt starts to screech as it speeds up, and you know you have serious torture ahead of you, it doesn't help for a song to come on your ipod that reminds you of an ex that is now dating someone who is short, boring, and able to sit on his lap w/o him bracing for  it.  Because those kinds of thoughts only slow you down. 

But if you put this song on your ipod, and you put it on when you are hitting mile 21 in your marathon, I dare you not to start kicking ass.  Because this song kicks ass on so many levels and it will rub off on your feet!  Try it.  It both calms and revitalizes your spirit.  Or distracts your from hating that bitch who probably just started and only passed you because you have already been running for thirty minutes.