I tell myself that I'll be strong.

These are the same legs, a bit older. But they are moving an extra thirty of forty pounds. I stretch, but my calves feel the strain.

The thing about those times when family is ill, it makes me feel ill. But I'm not. No symptom. Just. Ugh.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 32:21
Pace: 10:26

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature:  50°
Climate: cool, light fluffy clouds

Pavement: clear & dry
Mood: not bad

2011 Playlist

Dices - Selena Gomez & The Scene

You Make Me Feel - Cobra Starship ft. Sabi

Paradise (Tiësto Remix) - Coldplay

Lotus Flower - Radiohead

Na Na Nothing - Mike Doughty

Lights - Ellie Goulding

Rise Above 1 - Reeve Carney & Bono

Midnight City - M83

Who Says - Selena Gomez & The Scene

 

What was 2011? Little kids, Radio Disney. Twice Told Tales of the Decameron. I Hate This ... And Then You Die in a single evening. Learning about World War One to write The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This house was a beautiful disaster of children's toys, books and instruments.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 120 sec.
Water: yes

Look good but don't be obsessed.

Achy second day joints. Also, teaching, even for a class or two, can be very exhausting for me. I am trying to live with this body. But I do need it to be a stronger body.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 33:01
Pace: 11:01

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 45°
Climate: overcast & dreary

Pavement: clear
Mood: challenged

Got to take your above-freezing days where you can get them,

2021 Playlist

Trauma Queen - Durry

He Said She Said - CHVRCHES

Security - Amyl and the Sniffers

You're Not Special, Babe - Orla Garland

I Need Some of That - Weezer

Once Twice Melody - Beach House

Waiting On a War - Foo Fighters

Smile - Wolf Alice

Pay Your Way In Pain- St. Vincent

Spit of You - Sam Fender

What was 2021? A pandemic year. The high school graduation of our eldest child, and their advancement to college. The boy emerges from shutdown as a butterfly from a chrysalis. Online productions, trips to New York, the writing of plays, and lots of homework.

 
Stretches: yes 
Abdominals: 120 sec.
Water: yes

Fade into a bad dream.

You ever feel like you have been running in place your entire life? This is a metaphor.

Anyway, physically ... yeah. I am on a candy and chips kick. That shit has to stop. However, there's this place in my office which sells fresh fruit bowls. It's a scam, sure. You could do this yourself for way less money.

And yet. There's no way I could keep nine different kinds of fruit available in my fridge in quantity, and eat all of it. So, in a way ... it's actually a steal?

I plan to have lunch there every single day for the rest of my time in that building.

Distance: 2.25 miles

Duration: 23:44
Pace: 10:33

Route: Horizon Loop (clockwise)

Temperature: 37°
Climate: sunny & cold

Pavement: clear, mostly
Mood: all right

1972 Playlist

Sliced Tomatoes - Just Brothers

She Cracked - Modern Lovers

I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash

I Wanna Be With You

The City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie

One of the Boys - Mott the Hoople

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 120 sec
Water: yes