And as the Olympics really kicks in with track and field, the songs on my running machine… Rainy Days and Songdays Keep On Running.
Go ahead
Jump, Van Halen: And a random story to accompany this slice of Californian rock.
From my schooldays and a sadist PE teacher.
Hessy would take pleasure from spanking our arses with a sandshoe if we forgot our kit.
And in the long jump heats for sports’ day he swiped his foot when he was taking off for the pit.
Bar, bar, bar
Raise the Bar, Bonnie Anderson: You’ll know her better as Bea Nilsson from Neighbours.
But Bonnie (and she is) was marked out from stardom early when she won Australia’s Got Talent at 12.
There’s lots of good Aussie music that never comes to our shores.
Not sure this is it but she looks Bonnie.
Born To Run
Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen: Baby, we were born to run and I was too.
Although my specialised discipline Cross Country Running isn’t one of the sports included which is quire hard to do.
Not sure either if muddy public school grounds was what New Jersey‘s Bruce had in mind either.
Nae havering now
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) The Proclaimers: And I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more for Fife‘s finest.
And there are some who do, the waddling Olympian penguin people.
Now having been a member of a running club as a kid walking was giving up.
Put it there
Big Shot, Billy Joel: The Wee Noo Yoiker might struggle to lift, never mind twirl that big iron ball.
Billy is more in his element tinkering ivories than the shot put.
But who knows, he could have nailed it because it’s still track’n’roll to him.
Keep on running.