Just sit at home and masturbate.

FUCK! SINUSES! Weaving around like mental patient. Vertigo revisits after a welcome absence. Alas. Let us get one in through the snow to finish the month strongly.

Distance: 1 mile
Duration: 10:30

Feel much better having run. Clear that head.

1973 Playlist

20th Century Boy - T. Rex

Captain Jack - Billy Joel

Six runs, six decades, one month.

Route: Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 33°
Climate: light, fat snowflakes
Pavement: damp, puddles
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

I love you on the run and you love me.

Aches. My knees were hurting yesterday, but why? Not particularly cold, I have not been running. That may be it, of course, my muscles going slack with disuse. Not sure.

Going to run in the cold and damp. Feeling stressed out this week, we live in challenging times and I really wish standing up for what you believe felt better than this, but then maybe that's the point. 

Distance:  miles
Duration: 40:55
Pace: 10:13

That was marvelous. So good to get out into the open air without being uncomfortable. And I made four miles, no problem. Haven't made it to the park since New Year's Day. It's still there.

1983 Playlist  

Beep (153 BPM) - Pylon

Why Me? [Extended Version] - Planet P Project
Don't Let Go - Wang Chung
The World and His Wife - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
I Melt With You (155 bpm) - Modern English
What Is Love? - Howard Jones
The Politics of Dancing - Re-Flex
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Der Kommissar - After the Fire
These Things Take Time (165 BPM) - The Smiths

Route: Forest Hill Run
Temperature: 40°
Climate: overcast & damp
Pavement: wet
Mood: driven

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

"I love you whether or not you love me."

I tried to be an acrobat before I could run.

We will run at least once a week, in January and February. At least one mile. It was frigid all this past week, and there was snow. It is in the balmy twenties today, but it has been a week, and I must go.

The gym membership awaits. I am reminded that it as our son who encouraged to rec center attendance -- before the shutdown. Goodness.

Distance: 1 mile
Duration: 11:58

Woof, picking up those feet through drifts of snow and twisting ankles over the lumpy clods. My knees are going to hurt, they already do, but so worth it.

1993 Playlist

Kite - Nick Heyward

Dreams - The Cranberries

Ordinary World - Duran Duran

Route: Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 24°
Climate: puffy clouds & cold
Pavement: shoveled, lumpy with snow, un-shoveled drifts
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Water's running in the wrong direction.

A bright, frigid Sunday. One run a week? Better than none. Still intend to update my membership to the rec center. For now, we take a short run in the freezing temps, wearing new long johns as well as a long sleeved undershirt, with all the rest.

Distance: 1 miles
Duration: 9:52

2003 Playlist  

Sound of the Underground - Girls Aloud
Peace & Love - Fountains of Wayne
Sunrise - Simply Red

Route: Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 12°
Climate: sunshine & cold
Pavement: patchy with light snow and occasional ice, dry pavement
Mood: good, yeah?

Wow, it's not the cold, it's the wind. That's when I think I should have worn a tube scarf, I could have gone three miles but I didn't want to damage my skin.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

For Christmas, I got the boy his own copy of The Postal Service on CD. I realize now that album is to him as Revolver is to me, a record released two years before we were born that we were always aware of but took on special significance during our teenage years.

Baseline: 180 lbs.
Weight: 180 lbs. (-0-)

Goal: 175 lbs.

뛰는 놈.

Car-Free Saturday run with Annie
August 2013

Illness overwhelmed me after the holiday. All the coughing and exhaustion. Then I get one night in complete quiet and darkness and solitude, and I am just awake. Drowsing a bit but awake. Why? No idea. Finally slept a bit in the early morning and immediately popped into my kit. Let's do this now, if even for only a mile or two. 

Distance: 2 miles
Duration: 20:38
Pace: 10:19

Up at 4:30, writing in my journal, "Water tastes SO GOOD."  

Route: Burlington Loop (clockwise)
Temperature: 33°
Climate: overcast w/light snow

Pavement: damp
Mood: all right

2013 Playlist

The City - The 1975  

Right Action - Franz Ferdinand

Animals - Martin Garrix

Gangham Style (강남스타일) - Psy

Harlem - New Politics

When a Fire Starts to Burn - Disclosure

Man. That playlist was fire, as the kids say.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Baseline: 180 lbs.
Weight: 180 lbs. (-0-) 

Goal: 175 lbs.

"The guy who runs."

I want to run against the world that's turning.

Good day. We begin the new year with a cold. It's leveled off, but ugh. What a cough. I would prefer to begin in good health, but I am grateful for the health that I have.

I want to take a run, then take a hot shower. Good fortune be damned. I want to clear my lungs.

And here we go ... 58 Playlists for 58 Years.

2023 Playlist

Rush - Troye Sivan

bad idea right? - Olivia Rodrigo

Impressively Average - Brigitte Calls Me Baby (171 bpm)

De Selby (Part 2) - Hozier

This Is Why - Paramore

Mess It Up - The Rolling Stones

The Trench Coat Museum - Yard Act

Back On 74 - Jungle

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:01
Pace: 10:00

Much stronger than I anticipated. That felt good. I took that photo, by the way, just a block from my house. Stay safe out there!

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 33°
Climate: overcast & light snow
Mood: good

Stretches: no
Water: yes

Baseline: 180 lbs.
Goal: 175 lbs.

Not bad place to start, actually. Now can we do this.