He has seven daughters!

Eldest is home, freshman year is complete. What the actual fuck. They need to get up to speed, and hey, so do I. We took a nice run around the neighborhood, but man there are some inclines around here.

Anyway, well done.

Distance: 1.95 miles
Duration: 18:22
Pace: 9:28
Route: Neigbhorhood Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: nice
Mood: good

Stretches: yes
Weight: 193 lbs.

My friends. This is a problem. I need to manage better. I need to cut out sugar, less cheese, fewer carbs. These things need to happen, because I can't attain a healthful weight by running alone.

1999 Playlist

Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega

Livin La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin

Steal My Sunshine - LEN

Thong Song - Sisqo

What Do You Want Me To Say? - Dismemberment Plan

And here we go again!

We're back. Sunny skies and feelins strong. Had a Covid scare this week, a friend with whom I was in close contact on Tuesday tested positive, so I have been playing it safe. But I feel absolutely fine. And the run made me feel even better.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration:31:04
Pace: 10:01
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 63°
Climate: bright & sunny
Mood: good

Stretches: a little

1979 Playlist

The Sound of the Suburbs - The Members

In the Navy - Village People

She's Lost Control - Joy Division

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

My Sharona - The Knack

Lucky Number*  - Lene Lovich

Goodbye Girl* - Squeeze

Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart

Voulez-Vous - ABBA

Good Times - Chic

Here's to the winners of the human race.

Funny but 2,000 runs in the past sixteen years doesn't seem like a lot.

Distance: 3.75 miles
Duration: 38:06
Pace: 10:09 
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 80°
Climate: overcast & hot
Mood: good!

Stretches: yes
Weight:

Pushed it a bit further today, for the sake of the playlist. And I did do the whole thing without walking, just slowing down a couple of times -- which is fine.

No pain, just beautiful, clear, fresh air.

Intake

Breakfast: granola, dried fruit, yogurt, honey cream, banana, coffee (2x) 

Lunch: TBA

Dinner: TBA

1989 Playlist

Love Buzz - Nirvana

Let the Day Begin - The Call

One - Bee Gees

Biting My Nails - Renegade Soundwave

Drifting, Falling - The Ocean Blue

Waiting Room - Fugazi

Sin - Nine Inch Nails

The Downtown Lights - The Blue Nile

Move Mountains - Jesus Jones

Shake Your Rump - Beastie Boys

Summer of soul.

July 20, 1969

I have resolved, as the weather warms and my opportunities to run increase to ease off the garbage food. There has been a lot of that. And you know what? I had also decided not to feel bad about that. But there comes a time when taking it easy feels good. It's stuff I do not wish to carry with me.

The internet is full of blogs like this one, which are a multi-year document of one individual's ageing process as a human, rom teenager to young adult, from older adult into their senior years. I wonder if this one will be of use to anyone, tracking my physical and mental progress from age 38 to (so far) my late-early mid-fifties.

When will it end? When I stop running, I guess. Which will come first, that or death? 

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 31:03
Pace: 10:19
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 83°
Climate: sunny & HOT
Mood: good

Stretches: yes
Weight: 188.5 lbs. (+0.5)

1969 Playlist

Compared To What - Roberta Flack

It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam

Grazing In the Grass - Friends of Distinction

Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley

My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder

Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Give Peace a Change - John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Jesus. What a year!

This thing is starting.

Good lord! Now it's summer. For a day or two. I will run in the heat, because I have no excuse not to. 

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:32
Pace: 9:51
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: hot!
Mood: good

Stretches: yes

Oh, man. I hope this keeps up!

2009 Playlist

Do What U Like - Bad Boy Bill

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine

Ain't No Rest For the Wicked - Cage the Elephant

Halo - Beyonce

Help I'm Alive - Metric

Rude Boy - Rihanna

Carry Out - Timbaland ft. Justin Timberlake

The Fear - Lily Allen

Everybody's out on the run tonight!

Good lord, I cannot get my head straight. And I am exhausted. First I'm sick, then I cannot sleep. Okay now, let's move that body.

Distance: 2.5 miles
Duration: 25:15
Pace: 10:06
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 56°
Climate: cool. nice.
Mood: good

Stretches: yes

It was after dusk. Everybody was not, in fact, out on the run tonight. But I was! If I'd gotten out ten minutes earlier the park would not have been so creepy. And dangerous. As in, tripping over things dangerous. I just lapped the pond and out.  

1975 Playlist

Let's Dance - The Ramones

Fame - David Bowie

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To ...) - Queen

Love Is the Drug - Roxy Drug

Stand By Me - John Lennon

Sister Golden Hair - America

No more darkness. No more night.

Dad face.

The weather turns, it's been rainy but warm. And I have been ill. A bad springtime cold. I get those, though maybe only once during the shutdown? Ugh, what a feeling of wooziness and disorientation.

Today, however, the boy and I drove to Athens for the weekend. I feel much better, but all the post-illness stuff is making my face hurt. Driving in bright sunlight, on a warm day ... and the a/c is on the fritz. By the time I got to the MIL's place I was not in good shape.

So, I napped, and took a run! Really wanted to ge the blood -- and air -- moving through this body after a four hour drive.

Distance: 2.25 miles

Duration: 21:54

Pace: 9:42
Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 72°
Climate: Incredible.

Mood: very good

Stretches: a little

1995 Playlist

Fantasy - Mariah Carey

We Prick You - David Bowie 

1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins

Ripper Sole - STOMP

Magic Carpet Ride - Might Dub Katz

I Saw the Light - The The

Your feet may take you far from me.

Cool morning, took a jacket, wish I hadn't. It's chilly at first! But then the sun rises above the trees. Didn't wear sunglasses, either. Morning runs, you gotta plan, man.

Soon enough it won't make a difference. It will all be hot and bright.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:27
Pace: 9:49
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 43°
Climate: sunny & cool
Mood: good

Stretches: yes
Weight: 188 lbs. (-0-)

Intake

Breakfast: cold cereal w/banana, coffee (2x) 

Lunch: Leftover green pasta, apple

Treat: candy bar

Snack: cheese & crackers

Dinner: TBA

Also; fizzy water (1x)

Man. Killer playlist. Seriously, that's, like, the greatest hits for the entire decade.

2015 Playlist

The Shade - Metric

King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar

Leave a Trace - CHVRCHES

No Cities To Love - Sleater-Kinney

Wherever Is Your Heart - Brandi Carlile

Huarache Lights - Hot Chip

Wait For It - Leslie Odom Jr. & the company of "Hamilton"

Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd

Fight Song - Rachel Platten

Wait. What song is this?

Running up that building.

These days! These bright spring days! I am trying to talk myself up! They are full of writing, I am currently 1) editing passages from my notebook for one class 2) redrafting a script that was workshopped last month and 3) writing scenes for a new work for another class.

That last has come with difficulty. This morning was something of a breakthrough. It has required a great deal of discipline, making sure I touch on each every single day this month, and this morning the temperatures were high enough that I could also include a run in that equation.

Distance: 3.75 miles

Duration: 36:36
Pace: 9:45
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 50°
Climate: partly cloud & cool, ideal
Mood: good
Weight: 188 lbs. (-1.5)

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x)

Lunch: tukery reuben, notso fries, Pepsi

Dinner: vegetable teriyaki stir fry over rice

Cocktail: old fashioned

Nightcap: Cocoa w/marshmallows

Coming out of the park can be a struggle, today I had Eighties by Killing Joke with a bpm of 151 which is not terribly fast, which means it was perfect. And the final lap? Crushed it.

Don't mess with my toot toot.

1985 Playlist

Take Me Home - Phil Collins

Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

Fire In the Twilight - Wang Chung

How To Be a Millionaire - ABC

Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush

Eighties - Killing Joke

The Highest High - China Crisis

In Between Days - The Cure

My Toot Toot - Jean Knight

Phil Collins retured last week, and I wrote a thing about him.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Shortly after mile two I felt a twinge in my right glute. That could be a sidelining injury, and right when the season is about to turn. I walked, stoped, stretched, and headed on gently.

Take it easy, old man. You are in a mood for running and we do not want to be sitting on the bench.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:11
Pace: 10:03
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 40°
Climate: sunny & cool
Mood: good
Weight: 187.5 lbs. (-2.0)

Intake

Breakfast: granola, yogurt, dried fruit, sunflower seeds & honey, coffee (2x)

Treat: half a bookie (book-shaped cookie) w/milk

Lunch: Boba tea, macaroni & cheese

Snack: cheese & crackers, beer

Dinner: beans, greens, squash, chicken & beer

Also; fizzy water (1x)

2005 Playlist

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

[REDACTED]

Robot Rock - Daft Punk

Buttons - Pussycat Dolls

Waters of Nazareth - Justice

Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem

Chicken Payback - The Bees

Black Horse & the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall

Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists

I had put a new song on my playlist, and it actually offended me. Oops. I think it meant to suggest one thing, and it made me think another thing, and that was it. Can't deal with it.