Jester Running 101 - making the best of a bad situation. Youve all heard that great Sammy Hagar rock classic, I Cant Drive 55!. In fact, I would venture to guess that many of you have it on your running playlist, but do you know the story behind the song? Heres how it came about. I was in a rent-a-car that wouldnt go much faster than 55 miles an hour. I was on my way back from Africa. I did a safari for three months throughout Africa. A really great vacation after Three Lock Box. I was traveling for 24 hours, I got to New York City, changed planes, Albany, New York. Got in a rent-a-car. Had a place in Lake Placid at the time, a little log cabin, I used to go there and write with my little boy. Aaron, at that time, went to North Country school when I was on tour. I would go there and see him. It was a really cool getaway. But it took two and a half hours to drive there from Albany. And I was driving from Albany, New York at 2:00 in the morning, burnt from all the travel. Cop stopped me for doing 62 on a four lane road when there was no one else in sight. Then the guy gave me a ticket. I was doing 62. And he said, We give tickets around here for over-60. and I said, I cant drive 55. I grabbed a paper and a pen, and I swear the guy was writing the ticket and I was writing the lyrics. I got to Lake Placid, I had a guitar set-up there. And I wrote that song there on the spot. Burnt. —Sammy Hagar, 1994 This song is by far Sammy Hagars most well know song, and became his trademark. One year later he became the lead singer with one of the biggest rock bands of the time - Van Halen, who featured that song in every concert they performed while Sammy was in the band. I Cant Drive 55! is the 100th song on VH1s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. And it all came about from an event that petrifies each of us with fear when it happens to us. So whats the running lesson here? Whatever bad things happen to you in a run or a race, find something good you can take away from the experience. Sure, you may not make a fortune from it like Sammy Hagar did - and is still doing - but the lessons learned can provide you riches beyond measure, if you allow them to. Or, you can choose to wallow in self-pity. The choice is yours, choose wisely . . .
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:32:09 +0000
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