Better not kill the groove.

Still sick. Still determined to run a little every day. Last night we watched Saltburn. Hot tracks. Millennials who are still hurting from the "This Is Not Your Mother's Mean Girls" campaign have to contend with a film set in the mid-aughts as some kind of period piece. 

Distance: 2 miles
Duration: 20:22
Pace: 10:10

Songs from "Saltburn"

Murder on the Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor  

Perfect (Exceeder) - Mason ft. Princess Superstar 
Hang Me Up To Dry - Cold War Kids

This Modern Love - Bloc Party

Loneliness - Tomcraft

You're Gorgeous - Babybird

Route: Burlington Loop
Temperature: 37°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

What are we living for?

Really petered out this past month, now there aren't enough days in the year left to break my previous record of 195 runs, set in 2015 when I was training for a marathon.

You know what? Who cares. Start fresh on Monday. Maybe I'll run two hundred times next year.

Distance: 1 mile
Duration: 9:54

Got this cold, see? Minorly scratchy throat, running nose, not much of a cough. It's mild, the meds I am taking to clear my head make me feel weirder than the illness. So I keep running, a little bit, each day. After almost a month without exercise, it feels pretty good to move. 

Your Top Songs 2023  

New Gold - Gorillaz ft. Tame Impala & Bootie Brown

Here to Forever - Death Cab for Cutie

A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturday" - De La Soul ft. Q-Tip & Vinia Mojica

Route: Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 39°
Climate: overcast w/light rain
Mood: all right

Tempted a first to go further. Glad I didn't. Maintain, Cap'n. Maintain.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

We burst through the Overton window.

Hurt my back. Remember the rules, never run like you are trying to get the running over with. Relax, do not lean forward, run at the pace which best suits you at the moment.

Distance: 1 miles
Duration: 10:19

Without posting it here on the blog, I am attempting to pull it back on the consumption. God, there's a lot of little snack things around.  

Your Top Songs 2023

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine

Steal My Sunshine - LEN

Pontius Pilate's Home Movies - The New Pornographers

Route: Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 47°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: all right

I have a bit of a cold. And I am recovering from the allergies I suffer at Con's house. But I wanted to move, and so I did. I'm on vacation!

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Sit-Ups: 20

It's coming up!

Oh, boy. I got up at seven am, and it's six hours later and I have accomplished nothing. 

Holiday torpor. Let's run!

Distance: 1 mile
Duration: 9:35

One mile is better than no miles. AM I RIGHT?

Your Top Songs 2023  

Road to Joy - Peter Gabriel

DARE - Gorillaz

Actually, I haven't done nothing this morning. I wrote a blog post. Please clap.

Route: Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 46°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: all right, actually

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Sit-Ups: 20

Planks: 30 min.

They taught themselves to be OCCULT.

Happy Yule, y'all.

Merry Christmas. It's like spring outside in Athens, Ohio.

Distance: 2.05 miles
Duration:19:16
Pace: 9:23

Been enjoying myself nd trying not to be concerned. Took a few steps, felt weighted and tired. Took a few more and started to feel better. That's how we get it back, short runs build to longer runs, you can't pick up right where you left off.

I hope I can start strong in the New Year, to eventually greet the Spring where I ant to be. I think you know what I am talking about.

Your Top Songs 2023

Nothing Left to Lose - Everything But the Girl

Gold Rush -  Death Cab for Cutie

Eye Know - De La Soul

Cracker Island  - Gorillaz ft. Thundercat

Ship to Wreck - Florence + The Machine

I've come unwrapped.

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 61°
Climate: overcast and cool
Mood: merry.
 
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Got to get you into my life!

People have opinions about this, but the fact is Revolver is The Beatles best album. Produced right when they stopped touring (and as a result no longer had to worry about reproducing their work live) they were able to get really creative, but hadn't yet gotten used to being so fucking "creative."

From my childhood I knew individual songs, but it wasn't until I got a copy of the album in high school that I first heard it the way a teenager (may) have experienced it when it was first released. Can you imagine? There was a certain "Mod" sound you were expecting, like the first rack, Taxman. But then you are hit with an epic composition like Eleanor Rigby ... and that's only the second freaking track. 

It helped that I had started experimenting with weed. The boy says Eleanor Rigby is his favorite Beatles song of all. Mine is Tomorrow Never Knows.

And Don Draper can suck it.

Distance: 3.5 miles

Duration: 32:49
Pace: 9:22

Revolver - The Beatles (1966)

Taxman

Eleanor Rigby

I'm Only Sleeping
Love You To

Yellow Submarine

She Said She Said

Paperback Writer

Rain

And Your Bird Can Sing

For No One

Doctor Robert

Got To Get You Into My Life

Tomorrow Never Knows

Route: 3.5 miles

Temperature: 55°
Climate: overcast & cool

Mood: all right

 

Was doing very well keeping up in November, but the weather has turned and the holidays have started and I am just so very tired. But hey, it's over fifty today and I have a couple hours to bang together. No excuses.

 
Stretches: yes

Sit-Ups: tbd
Planks: tbd 

Upper body: tbd
Water: yes

Album includes the greatest love song ever written to weed. Happy Legalization Day (yesterday) to all who celebrate.