Ride That Funky Bike — White Girl.
4:10.
That’s the time I heard harps playing this morning.
Reaching over, I grabbed my phone and snoozed the harps.
Rain splattered against the window pane. That meant I needed to get my rear to the gym for no chance to exercise outside today.
A usual group of suspects attends a 5:15 a.m. spin class. I try to include myself in that number twice a week.
This morning our instructor was hill happy. Lots of excruciatingly long hills and lots of bumpy roads. We all exchanged glances in the dark.
Have I ever blogged how much I love spinning?
Yes, I was slugging through the workout when out of the blue a funky guitar riff came on. A song I hadn’t thought of since seventh grade.
And once that familiar long ago music started, it infused my body with a 12 year old’s energy.
I didn’t even like the song much back then.
It was okay but not like today.
This morning 37 years later, it was the greatest song ever.
My tone deaf self was singing along and my feet where straining at the cages wanting to jump down and dance.
My body was on a stationary bike staring at her 49-year-old self in the mirror, but my mind was in the cafeteria at Glenridge Junior High on a short schedule Wednesday waiting in line for a rectangle slab of pizza and a chocolate cookie the size of a small dinner plate.
Remembering how surprised I was to find out the guy that sang this was actually white.
Memba that?
If I had listened to the lyrics that would have been quite apparent.
It was a great two minutes spinning back in time.
Then Adele came on and we were rolling in the deep and up another hill.
Ugh. This white girl had ridden far away from seventh grade and was pooped.
Any song send you back to seventh grade waiting in line for frozen pizza?
Oh, yes! Blue, Blue My Love is Blue is a song from 7th grade. But you can’t spin to it, I don’t think ….
How about “Rollin’ on the River,” by CCR from 11th grade?
You can’t go wrong with Credence Jerralea. Though I always think of “There’s a Bathroom on the Right.” Lots of great spinning and running songs with CRR. They are definitely on my iPod.
I giggled when I saw the title of this post! Very clever 🙂 It’s amazing what music can do for your workout. I worked out once upon a time and I remember certain songs doing wonders. Now, off I go back to work, humming. “Play that funky music……”
I honestly can’t even remember any songs from when I was in 7th grade lol
In 1960 I was Twisting in 7th grade and listening to the Everly Brothers and Brenda Lee. I’m so old.
Katie atBankerchick Scratchings
I love how you go from the present to the past and back again, how music can evoke memories. I was just thinking today how I thought “Disco sucked” when I was a kid, but now I enjoy hearing it and remembering the old days. I guess that’s nostalgia. I went home for lunch in 7th grade, so no memories of waiting in line for a slab of pizza, only of harassing people along the boulevard with my friends!
I’ve been saying it for a while, imagine the music they’ll be playing in our retirement home rec rooms!!!
I think about those kind of things all the time Michelle.