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I’ve been trying to get back in shape by training for a 5K. It’s no piece of cake. When your idea of exercise has long consisted of an occasional one-mile jog or a bimonthly hike, running for thirty minutes will come pretty close to killing you the first time you try.

While I’d love to turn the whole thing into a game à la Russ Pitts’s brilliant “Master Chief in Sneakers: Making Life Not Suck,” I’m simply not ready to trust that the Nike+iPod’s RPG-like system will help my body level up. In short, it’s an expensive product and I don’t tend to get into role-playing games all that much.

Next best thing?  Listening to Video Games Live: Greatest Hits — Volume 1 on my iPod Shuffle.  The “Halo Suite” pushes me into overdrive every time.