Running with a rockstar

Running defines me. I am always wife and Mum first but after family, running is my other true passion. It’s more than just exercise for me, yeah it keeps me fit, but it’s who I am.  It challenges me to set goals and keep them in check, it makes me dig deep (deeper than I would like to go some days) and makes me feel like I can do anything. How’s that for passion?

Even though we may not all run for the same reason,  I always love to hear about other runners. Earlier this week I was like a giddy schoolgirl when I found out that one of the members of my favourite bands ever, runs. According to a tweet by Nikki Sixx, (founder of Motley Crue), he “was off 4 a 2 mile run”. I am not sure whether he is a runner or if he just runs, there is a difference (passion), but it got me wondering what going for a run with Nikki Sixx would be like.

Not only is Nikki the bassist of Motley Crue and Sixx Am, he is also a photographer, author of the Heroin Diaries, host of the Sixx Sense radio show and is dating Kat Von D. This guy has lived LARGE and lived to tell about it. I bought a copy of the Heroin Diaries on my way to Vegas to read on the plane, I could not put the book down, I even took it to the pool with me, this book was more interesting than the pool on a Saturday afternoon in Vegas!

The stories that he could tell me on our run aside, I can’t help but speculate what Nikki would wear. I think that after his Theatre Of Pain days, he would be long over spandex, especially the black and white stripy kind, so I can only assume that he would wear a longer version of running shorts, and of course a tank, with some random saying, to show off all of his ink. Nikki has A LOT of hair, so most of my curiosity lies here; does he wear a hat…a headband…a pony? He would have to wear something, so I am going to go with a bandana, it would serve the purpose while still allowing him to be hardcore.

I am just going to throw this out there, Nikki, if for some strange and crazy reason you are reading this, and you are ever in Vancouver or next time I am in LA, if you want to up your distance or hill train, I would even be willing to jog, have your people call me. I promise that it wouldn’t be awkward or stalker like, we can talk life, love, music, art or just running.