Creative Challenge Contest

There are lots of challenges in this training routine. I've talked about some of them: finding the time for 2 daily workouts without completely abandoning the rest of my life; dealing with the inevitable sickness, aches and pains, or exhaustion; or just hauling my tired bod up one last hill.

But I have a challenge I need your help with! Now that we're swimming longer distances without breaks, I'm having to face facts. Swimming is kind of, well, boring. Call it what you want: meditative, peaceful, whatever, the fact remains that you're face down for 30 minutes or more with nothing to look at but a black line. (Although today I was fascinated, in a horrified sort of way, by a disgusting giant hairball tumbleweeding its way across the bottom of my lane.) Fine, you say... just zone out. Think about something, anything else.

That sounds great, but it tends to mean that I lose track of how far I've swum. All of a sudden I'm wondering if I'm on lap 6 or if I just DID lap 6 and this is lap 7, or if I was thinking about how soon I would be to lap 6 and this is still really lap 5.

So, being a total dork, I killed two birds with one stone and came up with a game that (1) keeps me distracted from the back-and-forth monotony and (2) helps me remember what lap I'm on. Basically, for every lap, I try to think of a song that heavily features the number of the lap I'm on. So, for instance, on lap number 9 I might sing "Love Potion #9 to myself.) The number doesn't have to be in the title of the song, but it should feature prominently, and ideally the song focuses on ONE number only.

The problem? I totally SUCK at this game! I don't know enough songs! So I'm opening up the comments to all of you to help me out. I'm looking for songs featuring the numbers 1-33. (33 laps is 1,650 yards or one mile.) Here's the rules:

1) One entry per person.
2) Most songs wins (one song per number please). Bonus points for creativity.
3) No TV theme songs. I don't need the "Three's Company" theme stuck in my head. Ooops, too late. Anyway, keep it to songs that could reasonably be played on the radio.
4) Preference for songs focusing on one number.
5) Contest closes one week from today - Tuesday, May 1.

Let's hear it! I'm opening up the blog to anonymous comments, so those of you without Blogger accounts can participate. But please SIGN YOUR COMMENT with your first name/last initial or a nickname that I will definitely recognize. I will delete unsigned comments... gotta keep control somehow around here. :-)

The winner (or winners, depending on the response) will get a cool, actual prize! Not a big prize, but a prize anyway! Won't that be great?