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Being someone who is a prime example that you can be horrifically unhealthy while being simultaneously relatively thin, I’ve taken up running. I’m mostly concerned about improving my cardiovascular health since heart disease is the number one killer of women and there’s a history of heart problems in my family. I’m doing the Couch to 5K running plan because it seems like a good way of easing into running slowly without burning yourself out.

I discovered that tons of people make Couch-to-5K podcasts and playlists with vocal or sound prompts alerting you to when you need to switch from running to walking (and vice versa), but all the ones I sampled killed me with their relentless techno beats. This, as you can imagine, is very much not for me. I understand why people want seemingly upbeat music to run to, but am I so wrong for wanting to jog to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska? AM I?!

Luckily, I stumbled upon a site that has a tutorial on how to add voice prompts to your own choice of music. Something weird kept happening every time I tried to import the Week 1 vocal prompts into the music editing program, so I had to stick with some random club beatz (with a Z!) for my remaining runs in Week 1. Next week, though, next week! Next week I’ll be Week 2-ing to Born To Run, which only as I type that did I realise I picked for “Backstreets” and “Thunder Road” and not because it has “Run” in the title. My powers of observation are obviously very high.