My inspirational song!

To me, there's nothing more powerful than a great song when I'm running. No matter how tired I am, when I hear a particular song it seems to breath new life into my tired legs and I manage to keep going. I've adopted a Jackson Browne song as my own. It's a song that was featured in the movie Forrest Gump.

The song is called "Running on Empty" and for me it symbolizes the feeling that I get when I have to dig deep when I'm not at my strongest. Even though I'm using this as an inspiration for my running, in many ways it can be used for anything we do in life. There are times when we are not going to be at our physical, mental or emotional "best" and it is during these times that we have to find the inner strength to keep going on. Some people call it "will power" but whatever you call it try to remember that we all have to capability to push ourselves to the limit when we need to.

Here are the lyrics:

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don't know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that'll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
Running into the sun but I'm running behind