TGIF!

Friday is here again and I'm looking forward to the weekend. It's going to be busy with more work on the basement, cleaning the cars and doing some shopping, but that's all good.

I believe I may have overdone it this week with my walking and running. My nike+ unit has a total of 40.02 km clocked since last thursday and my legs are not happy with me. The last couple of times I've been out the muscles in my shins have started to get tired very quickly. It's not exactly shin splints, but what feels like an excess in lactic acid building up in the muscles. I'm going to take today off and possibly tomorrow to give my body some time to recover. The 5k run is definitely out this weekend and the one I did last week was most likely the culprit for my lack of recovery this week.

For the time being I'm going to follow an 8 week training schedule that will work my up to running 5k. It starts with 1.5 mile runs the first week and works up to 5 k in 1/4 mile increments. I could run further than 1.5 miles at a time but I'm determined to not injure myself.

On another topic I've been listening to some new (for me) music over the last week. For my walks and runs I've switched to some Crystal Method and Prodigy. I used to have Prodigy's first CD but have no clue where it is now. Somewhere between Newfoundland and BC I figure. Both bands have good beats for running - especially Crystal Method. I downloaded a 45 minute mix from itunes that was developed for the nike+ system. It's pretty good.

On the rock front I also downloaded some songs from Electric Six, Wolfmother, The Raconteurs and Rockstar: Supernova. Electric Six is fun. It's somewhat retro and cheesy, but cool nonetheless. I first heard them on the website www.rathergood.com.

Wolfmother is total old school rock. The singer sounds like Ozzy Osbourne mixed with Robert Plant and the rock is very late 70s/early 80s inspired. I really like it. Again, a bit cheesy, but easily likable. I think Cory would like them ;-)

The Raconteurs are four guys that are already in established bands. The most famous right now being Jack White from The White Stripes. It has a good feel and very White Stripish - if that makes sense.

Rockstar: Supernova is of course the latest band formed from the reality show Rockstar. They ended up with the name Rockstar: Supernova after a band in California - called Supernova - refused to let them have the name. So they just added the "Rockstar:" to the beginning and the judge said that was fine. The lead singer is Lukas Rossi from Ontario. I liked him from day one on the show. The two songs they have released so far ("It's All Love" and"Be Yourself and Five Othe Cliches") are somewhat generic rock, but still catchy. Lukas was definitely a good choice for them. His previous band, Rise Electric, is also a good listen although a bit depressing at times.