Speedy Beat

     Being a self proclaimed musician, I hold myself to the fact that I can keep tempo like nobodies business. This is in fact a lie. Watching me tap along to a song is a sight for sore eyes, my eyebrows furrowing deeper with each beat that I fall behond, tounge pressed tight between my lips in a sad attempt to save myself.
      I know the basic root of counting music, and I try my darndest to match my footsteps to the drum beats pulsing behind a singer. One foot forward, next step, continue, following the bass drum, steady. I often find myself chasing the beat, which I guess is a musical term, but to be honest, I can never keep straight what is and what isn't, but this time it's literal. The mix of music on my phone that keeps me company on the way home is greatly varied, and for than I loathe myself. The song choice can go from an uptempo walking song that I can easily and merrily make my way, a song like Some Nights by Fun., to a slow song that drags my extremities in a mourners stroll, such as Alseep by The Smiths, to a high jump 'n jive song, bringing me to a full on sprint.
     Maybe the first sentence of this post gave it away, but I am not an athlete in any sense of the word. Needless to say, when Panic Song by Green Day starts pounding, I groan and accept the fact that my feet will not dance atop pavement or dirt roads on a journey, and it bores holes through my ears.
     A sort of serendipitous resolution came to me yesterday. My friend and I were planning on going swimming at the YMCA, yet the pool was closed due to untold circumstances involving someone swimming for 24 hours straight. The outcome? The verdict that we would head upstairs to the gym area. I have never set foot in one of these traps of sweaty elders and jacked college football players. Here we are, two teenage girls in Mickey mouse sweatpants, ready to work out. I was intimidated. The only time a smile broke across my face was when I was too light to. make one of the machines move.
     But I digress, I've decided that I needed to link my physical fitness to my ability to walk in time.