Wear me on your wrist and I'll tell you things ten thousand times.

We rise. We pack. We drive to Athens. We learn how to drive a pickup with a trailer hitch. We get U-Haul. We load. 

We run.

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 36:56
Pace: 9:14
Route: Hocking Rover Bike Path
Temperature: 75°
Climate: hazy & hot, dusk
Mood: maintaining

Songs For My Funeral

Tinseltown in the Rain - Blue Nile

One of These Things First - Nick Drake

Get Me - Everything But the Girl

Marquee Moon - Television

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads

Do You Realize?? - Flaming Lips

Águas de março - Elis Regina & Antônio Carlos Jobim

The fair is in town!

Stretches: I mean
Water: yes

Planks: no
Push-ups: no

Sit-Ups: no

Lovely run by the river. Really pushed myself after an exhausting day. Lot of time with my kid, though much of it was either woozy in the car (the rest, man) or negotiating furniture. I'm apprehensive, but also looking forward to our journey tomorrow.

Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago. With no air conditioning. And rain. We will be sweating.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world.

Good times at Larry's Dawg House

Twenty-two every-other-day runs. Consistency. I won't have the opportunity to run again until Wednesday, but if everything goes smoothly, it will be so worth it.

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 35:36
Pace: 8:54

Visiting Athens, the elder commenced this weekend. So many emotions. They have always been a work of art unto themself, this weekend they received recognition for all this great work. Now it is time to move into the larger world.

What will happen?

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 56°
Climate: overcast & humid
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

1970 Playlist

We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder

I Think I Love You/Come On Get Happy - Th Partridge Family

Who Loves the Sun - Velvet Underground

Your Song - Elton John

Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond

Domino/Everyone - Van Morrison

ABC - Jackson 5

Instant Karma (We All Shine On) - John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Thank you (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly & the Family Stone

Super Bad Pts. 1 & 2 - James Brown & the JBs

You glorify the past when the future dries up.

We are in Athens, MIL is having hip replacement surgery, and we came down last night to assist, to make meals, to care.

What will we do? This is not the country I promised my children. There is nothing to say, white America is stupid and angry. Decades of misinformation and nonsense have led to this moment. The American experiment is holding as it was designed, to protect wealthy white men. And I have lost faith. Change will come, but not in my lifetime. I tried. So many of us tried.

Eight years ago we were shocked, surprised. What does this mean? And we protected each other, knit hats, wore safety pins, met and told stories, signaled virtue, protested in the streets -- even created art. And we hoped that things would change, because we did not know where it was headed.

And it has headed to this? Seriously? You can't blame our candidate. She ran a flawless campaign. But white America is terrified of people of color, of women, of transgender people, and that they may lose their dominance over them. Is this because white people assume if you are in the majority you necessarily must harm the minority? That there will a reckoning? Or is that they never learned to share? Or do they just hate and fear.

People will suffer, they have before and they will again. And people will die. And those of us who do not, who are in positions of education and communication will be instructed in what we can and cannot say.

There will be a reckoning, that is for sure. And it will have been avoidable.

This is the essay I told myself I would not be writing today. Because it isn't very good, or insightful, or helpful. But this is my running blog, where I record my general well-being as well as log my runs, my each and every run, as I maintain my health through my middle years. And for the sake of my mental well-being, I will abstain from social media for the foreseeable future. I can not stand to listen to people I care about wail in the darkness.

Distance: 6.75 miles

Duration: 1:0:58
Pace: 9:37

College Run (1986-1990)

The Only Way Is Up - Yazz

Go Lil Camaro Go - Ramones

Fuck Tha Police - N.W.A.

Talkin' Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chpaman

Summer's Cauldron - XTC

Slow Ride - Beastie Boys

Praying For Time - George Michael

Honey Bee - The Bears

Losing My Mind (Disco Mix) - Pet Shop Boys

Vibrating - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians 

The Passenger - Siouxsie  the Banshees

Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements

Musique Non Stop - Kraftwerk

I Still Believe - Tim Cappello

Desire - U2

Hippychick - Soho

Crucial Bar-B-Q - Murphy's Law

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 72°
Climate: overcast & authoritarian
Mood: just nauseous
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: TBD

What's That Lyric?

God Part 2 - U2

(It's not actually on the playlist. I hate this song.)

There's still so much for me to do.

What's this?

A couple days spent in Athens to visit our elder child, and to meet new old friends. Residency rehearsals begin on Tuesday, the great turn of the wheel. The Guardians languish at the top of the AL, struggling to maintain preeminence. Harris remains a couple points ahead -- as of September 1. This can change. It can all change. I take a moment to feel a temporary flash of gratitude before descending again into doubt and insecurity.

Also? My back still hurts, driving four hours without a break last night was not a great help, nor sleeping in a strange, firm bed. I will take a run on the bike path, and listen to songs from my youth.

Oh, my youth. By the time I was our elder child's age, I had met my wife. I was seeing my ex-wife, but I had met Toni. That's how old they are, or how young I was. Twenty-one years old. And what have I accomplished since? And am I any kind of better person?  

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 37:03
Pace: 9:15

College Years Playlist

I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat

Why Can't I Be You? (Extended Mix) - The Cure

Reptile - The Church

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon

Kill Eye - Crowded House

Don't Forget Me (hen I'm Gone) - Glass Tiger ft. Ryan Adams

Candy - Iggy Pop ft. Kate Pierson

Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 77°
Climate: overcast & beautiful
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: TBD

A lazy day around the New House. Late breakfast, casual conversation, time with family. So glad to see the kid after so many months.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, leftover Dr. Pepper

Brunch: eggs w/sour cream, salsa & scorpion hot sauce, bacon, rye toast w/jam, more coffee

Afternoon Bevvy: Dortmunder

Her little white boys.

Thank you, Zendaya, for this big horny bi tennis movie (that's not really about tennis). Seriously, though. When do we get unapologetically non-phobic bisexual men in mainstream film? It was a hoot, the last five minutes made me so happy.

Distance: 3.2 miles
Duration: 29:36
Pace:  9:17

 

But it's not just all the sloppy tongue kissing, Reznor and Ross have been making incredible film scores, and this one had me so thrilled. Listening to it on its own I was reminded of all the new music I discovered as I trained for my first marathon.

And then I remembered my first marathon was in 2006. And the events of this film begin in 2006. Jesus Christ! They made a period-accurate techno album!  

Challengers (Original Score) - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (2024)

Challengers

"I Know"

Yeah x10

The Signal

Brutalizer

Stopper

Brutalizer 2

The Points That Matter

Pull Over

Challengers: Match Point

Compress/Repress

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 68°
Climate: overcast & glorious
Mood: good

Here's the thing, music is the motivation. I didn't begin running in earnest until the invention of the iPod. It's just a fact. I can run because I want or need to run, but sometimes just knowing what I will be listening to on the run drives me to get that kit on and go.

The "year" runs began as a way to get me back on the street after my first marathon. What if I create playlists from every year of my life, that could be fun. I have been doing that, more or less, since 2007.

But the fact is, the earlier we go the less interested I am. Music from the late 60s isn't my bag. I mean, it moves me but it doesn't move me. So, in spite of good weather, knowing I need to listen to the 1967 playlist has actually been a deterrent. And ain't that a shame.

Anyway, we are in Athens. And the weather is perfect, I can listen to whatever I want, if it gets me on the bike path. Today that's some retro techno. 

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Perfect day by the Hocking. And I felt good. You can see, my time was faster. Last week I was trudging, it wasn't enjoyable. Today? Very enjoyable. It's about weather. It's about rest. So much to do with rest.

I was hoping to run yesterday, but I started the day with a headache and that kind of threw everything off. Can I run at least three times a week for the next three weeks? It is a goal. And we will begin with music from 1967.

Upper Body: 20 reps.

Take it up a notch.

Day three. The thing about drinking, I can come in from outside and think, what will I drink? And then I remind myself -- oh, nothing! Then I don't have to think about it.

I also think of snacks, until I remind myself that I'm not having snacks, and I think of something else.

I'm not saying any of this is easy. What I'm saying is I think these things. It's amazing how much I think about snacking or drinking. I am probably bored. Not drinking or snacking probably makes me look at my phone more. I need to look at more books.

Distance: 5 miles
Duration: 48:01
Pace: 9:36

Christ, yesterday's run made me knees hurt. I finally got a second knee compression bandage. They match. It's better that way. More support for me knees helps.  

Last night we were invited to a dance part at Casa -- our child invited us to a dance party. They are so cool. We danced. But I didn't dance too much, I didn't want to tax my legs any further, and anyway, they did a poll a couple years ago that says that men should stop dancing publicly when they turn thirty and I support that. The wife thinks that poll is nonsense, but come on, no one wants to see that shit.

2010 Playlist

Dancing On My Own - Robyn

Lights - Ellie Goulding

Bang Bang - Mark Ronson ft. The Business Intl & MNDR)

Pow Pow - LCD Soundsystem

TiK ToK - Ke$ha

Change of Time - Josh Ritter

Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera

Burn It Down - Sims

Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells

Mr. Saxobeat - Alexandra Stan

Shake It Up - Selena Gomez

Hello (Club Edit) - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 58°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: better

Good day. Hearty brunch, visited an artist show upstairs at the Union and got a trio of candles (among others things). Relaxation has been hard for me, it's not been a great couple of weeks, mental health speaking. But today I am feeling much better.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Brunch: coffee, OJ, chicken & waffles

Happy Hour: Coke over ice
Dinner: popcorn

Gorgeous day by the river, lots of runners, walkers, cyclists. How could I not run five miles?

Feels good to make your body move.

Friday was a bigger day than I realized. This morning I woke and my keister was sore, on the left side. It was from all of the dagger fights and death scenes.

Slept eight hours, no melatonin, no Benadryl. No alcohol, no weed. Just Zoloft and caffeine this morning. I have a dry cough, which I contribute to dehydration and a lot of talking yesterday. I have to get on that.

Distance: 3.5 miles
Duration: 34:24
Pace: 9:50

Beautiful afternoon by the river, keep that head up, it's good for you to straighten your spine.

But, ooh. My butt hurts.

2020 Playlist

Murphy's Law - Róisín Murphy

Blinding Lights - The Weeknd 

Music Makes Me High - Avalanches

Model Villages - Idles

Interstellar Love - Avalanches ft. Leon Bridges

Open Relations - Heart Bones

Feels Good - Longshot ft. Tgik, Taylor Ray  DJ Serpico

Levitating - Dua Lipa

Your Love (Déjà Vu) - Glass Animals

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 52°
Climate: Overcast and breezy
Pavement: damp
Mood: good

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, scrambled eggs w/spinach, sour cream w/salsa, buttered toast, bacon w/syrup, clementine
Lunch: café au lait, coffe cake
Dinner: white chili w/chicken, corn, avocado, onion, cheese, corn chips & crème fresh 

Dance Party: Athletic Lite NA

Groove in all slow motion.

Name this band.
(I call them "The Offspring")

Time in Athens, celebrating the twenty-first birthday of our eldest. The MIL is moving out of the homestead (it's staying the family, though) so this is perhaps our first weekend staying here. The years progress, things change. And that's all right.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 29:52
Pace: 9:57

Perfect spring weather. Unfortunately, it’s February. In spite of my kit, the warm air, the funky playlist, I was chugging. Just chugging along. Again, it makes a difference when you’re carrying a 20 pound weight.

2022 Playlist

Drown Me! - Junie & TheHutFriendseat

Gasoline - The Weeknd

Life Goes On - Ezra Collective for. Samoa the Great

Life is Good - Justin Caruso

Jackie Down the Line - Fontaine’s DC

Die Hard - Kendrick Lamar ft. Blxst, Amanda Reiner

Tonight - Phoenix ft.  Ezra Koenig

The Smoke - The Smile

The Only Heartbreaker - Mitski

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 55°
Climate: gorgeous
Mood: good

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

A little part of you inside of me will never die.

This has been a long week. Returning home from Athens, we spent the rest of the day packing and loading the boy's stuff to take him to school. Then we spent a few nights in Cincinnati, to get to know the place a little, and take care of last minute business for the boy (he was otherwise occupied settling in.) Now we're back in Athens for more family occasions.

There's been a lot of driving these past few weeks. I hate that part. It's been aggressive to my thighs. But when it's all over it will just be the two of us. But we've been two before and that was very nice, too.

Distance: 5 miles

Duration: 45:09
Pace: 9:02

Route: Hocking River Bike Path

Temperature: 66°
Climate: sunny & warm

Mood: very good

 

College Run Playlist (1986-1990)

Do You Believe in Shame? - Duran Duran

Need You Tonight - INXS

In the Lowlands - Crowded House

African Dance - Soul II Soul

Miss You Much - Janet Jackson

Beer - Murphy's Law

Shamas-Ud-Doha, Badar-Ud-Doja - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The Prisoner - Squeeze

Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants

Buddy - De La Soul ft. Jungle Brothers & Q-Tip

 
Stretches: yes

Bicycles: 20
Planks: 90 sec.

Water: yes

We have run more this year than in 2021, or in 2019, or since the year 2016. Not what I expected when this year began. We eat less, we drink way less, we exercise more. We feel pretty good.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream

Coffee Break: latte, cranberry nut muffin 

Lunch: popcorn

Dinner: steak, corn on the cob, baked potato (butter, cottage cheese), caesar salad

Alcohol? Old Fashioned (1x)

Man. When was the last time I went four days without a run?

Reading (60 min.): yes

Told our eldest about how I met their mother. So that's where we are now.

Body and beats.

I want to be more intentional. I want to be reading and writing every day. Knowing there is a big change coming I have been putting off these plans. They will come soon, right? I will have copious amounts of time soon. Will I, though? Is that how it works? It is not. You do today.

Running again, and eating well. That was intentional, and I have kept at it for nearly half a year. I can do more. I have done, I can do.

And I will start today.

Distance: 1.7 miles (running)

Pace: 9:00

Route: out the bike path and back

Temperature:  77°
Climate: light rain

Mood: good

 
Stretches: yes

Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream 

Brunch: beignets, egg benedict & hash browns (split)

Dinner: cheeseburger, baked beans & chips

Dessert: chocolate cake & vanilla ice cream

Alcohol? Mystic Mama IPA

First run with the boy since he was sidelined with a minor injury. Headed out from the hotel, ran the path for a bit, walked for a while to work out his shoulder. Light rain. Nice.

Reading (30 min.): Bechdel, A.

Writing (30 Min.): Storyboarding

Currently reading Alison Bechdel's recent memoir, The Secret to Superhuman Strength. It is a book with which I can relate.

What's That Lyric?

Blister In the Sun - Violent Femmes

I'm so happy with my feet on the ground.

Driving across the state last night was dreadful. Yes, we now have the technology to let us know that there is a TORNADO WARNING while we are in our cars on the open road ... but what then? Pull over? With no safe cover available? Might as well keep driving.

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 36:20
Pace: 9:05

Route: Hocking River Bike Path

Temperature: 82°
Climate: sunny & hot

Mood: good

It was cool and beautiful when I rose this morning, but held out to see if anyone wanted to join me. Not today. So I took a hot noontime run -- which is fine with me.

I live in the past. I live in the present and the future, too. I'm like a god, or isn't it nice to think so.

College Run Playlist

Buddy (Native Tongue Decision) - De La Soul ft. Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Monie Love, Queen Latifah

Mirror People - Love & Rockets

Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order

She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

The Gas Face - 3rd Bass ft. Zev Love

Earn Enough For Us - XTC

Roadrunner - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Drifting, Falling - The Ocean Blue

Pump It Up (Lean On Me Reprise) - Club Nouveau

Birth, School, Work, Death - The Godfathers

 
Stretches: yes

Sit-Ups: 20
Planks: 90 sec. 

Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, Swedish fish

Lunch: Reuben, fries, OJ, coffee

Happy Hour: Pepsi

Dinner: spaghetti & sausage meatballs, salad

Dessert: peach cobbler & ice cream 

Alcohol? GLBC Dortmunder

Reading (30 min.): yes (Bechdel, A.)

I'm just glad to be here.

An extended weekend in Athens, Ohio. I don’t wanna go into the details of why we’re here on a Tuesday, except to say that our eldest is moving into their first off-campus housing.

Tell you this, though. All of this joyful celebration has meant eating in restaurants or carry out for practically every single meal. It’s a lot.

But it’s beautiful overcast day, and we came prepared to run by the river.

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 37:56
Pace: 9:29 

Route: Hocking River Bike Path

Temperature: 63°
Climate: overcast and cool

Mood: very, very good

College Playlist (1986-1990)

Sledgehammer (Dance Mix) - Peter Gabriel

End of the Line * - Traveling Wilburys

Left of Center - Suzanne Vega ft. Joe Jackson

Gigantic - Pixies

Dreamworld * - Midnight Oil

You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker

I Touch Roses - Book of Love

The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul * - XTC

All She Wants Is (US Master Mix) - Duran Duran

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec. (2x)

Upper body: 10 reps. (2x)
Water: yes

Short Elder Run

Waiting on Mountain Stage
featuring Larry Groce

Brought a kit for an overnight in Athens, we had tickets to see Wilco at Mem Aud. Made plans with the eldest to take a run, but early morning was rainy and cold. We all just sat around for a while, drinking coffee and sitting by the fire, and eventually the sun came out -- so we went!

Ope. Forgot a supporter. Well.

It was a short run, made arduous by the wind in our faces heading back. Both of our ears ached, but we were glad we went. 

Distance: 1.3 miles

Duration: 12:41
Pace: 9:45

Route: Hocking River Bike Path

Temperature: 45°
Climate: overcast & windy

Pavement: damp
Mood: good

I've got to get stronger.

Ben Affleck is Phil Knight

Heading out for a morning run, and I was surprised and delighted that the boy wanted to go with, I assumed everyone wanted to sleep in. I make a game of asking him to guess what year we are listening to. It's an anthropological mystery.

Listening to the year 2015 on the drive down, he was jarred by memories. So was I.

Distance: 2.8 miles

Duration: 27:19
Pace: 9:45

Route: South Green Loop

Temperature: 55°
Climate: sunny & nice

Mood: very good

Took a hill, walked for a bit through campus. Nice work.

1995 Playlist

Geek Stink Breath - Green Day

Stutter - Elastica

Roll To Me - Del Amitri

Girl U Want - Devo

Down By The Water - PJ Harvey

Scream - Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson

Hidden Charms - Elvis Costello

Shook Ones, Pt. II - Mobb Deep

Hyperballad - Bjork

Missing (Terry Todd Remix) - Everything But the Girl 

What was 1995? Started the year with an empty house, ended it with The Realistic World. Dobama's Night Kitchen, Bummer. Also, Junk Bonds at Cleveland Public Theatre. The new girlfriend moved in, life started again, again. But not for the last time.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec. (2x)

Upper body: 5 (2x)
Water: yes

Saw AIR last night. Man. Everybody still thinks runners are fucking weird.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream 

Lunch: Reuben w/10000 Island, fries & ketchup, more coffee

Drive snacks: Vanilla Coke, Cool Ranch Doritos 

Dinner: Mac & cheese, peas

First Doritos since February. And they’re not even Nacho Cheese.

Athens morning run.

First vacation run. Lovely day by the Hocking, forgot my headphones which was only disappointing in I expected to be listening to Elvis Presley this morning. Instead, birds! The wind! Traffic from the two-lane across the river.

Asked the boy to bring running shoes, which he did. There will be team beach runs this week, if I can get him up any time before nine.

Distance: 2.25 miles

Duration: 21:28
Pace: 9:32
Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 74°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: one guess

Stretches: yes

Abdominals: 90 sec.

Water: yes

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

You got me shaking, got me running away.

Drop the child off after brunch at Casa so they could rest (they were up later than they planned, helping an intoxicated colleague) and do homework.

Then the wife and I headed to the bike path for a little exercise before cleaning up, packing up and shopping out.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 27:05
Pace: 9:01
Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 84°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: good
Weight: 173.5 lbs. (-0-)

Intake
Brunch: coffee (3x), huevos rancheros w/home fries, Van Helsing
Snack: Combos (small pack)

Dinner: Special K w/whole banana

What’s That Lyric?

Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO

You gotta be cool. You gotta be calm. You gotta stay together.

Squatting on the floor of the dorm.

It's Parents Weekend at Ohio University! We aren't engaging in any of the collective university activities, just happy to spend time with the elder one and hang around the Wolf Homestead.

Last night they took us the a drag show at the Union, so that was cool. Later some other Heights parents with Bobcats are coming by.

I took a run past Peden Stadium, and the football game. Usually I park there, but for obvious reasons not today, starting instead out by Union Street. Beautiful day.

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 36:52
Pace: 9:13
Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 79°
Climate: little fluffy clouds
Mood: good

Daily Mix Playlist

Beating of Hearts - XTC

Freedom! '90 (Back To Reality Mix) - George Michael

My Antarctica - Duran Duran

Can't Get There From Here - R.E.M.

Rasputin - Boney M.

You Gotta be - Des'ree

Down In the Cockpit * - XTC

Up All Night - Boomtown Rats

Read My Lips - Duran Duran

Get started. Get stupid.

Keep going.

Last year I ran twenty-six times in June. And I hurt myself. I don't even remember that. My hip was in pain. I think that was the result of running every single day. It was a mania, I guess. I was then, as now, trying to slim down to a manageable size. I was 185 lbs. in June. I was able to drop another five pounds, but then put it all back on by the holidays.

Running every day, I didn't write about it. Too busy? In quarantine? I had nothing to say? It was a difficult, depressing time.

Not that tings are rosy and bright. But they are better. I was exposed to lots of hillbillies this weekend. Really testing the limits of this vaccine.

I have been in a creative frenzy this past year, too. The writing, the schoolwork, all the Zoom productions. But I'd like to make exercise something that is part of my head, what I think about, and not just something I do and get over with, to try not to think about. Some of my favorite moomenst I am thinking about running. Or actually running.

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 37:54
Pace: 9:27
Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 67°
Climate: sunny & nice
Mood: good, you know?

My current mental exercise in delayed gratification. I will be eating X later, so I will not eat Y right now. If I did this on Noob (or whatever it's called) I could find out exactly what the calories are in X vs. Y, too. For now, I choose to be merely mindful.

It's not really a diet. I am not eating different. Just less grazing. 

Intake:
Breakfast: coffee (2x) 
Lunch: General Tso's Tofu

Snack: deviled eggs, tapanade w/crackers

Dinner: cheeseburger, onion rings, milkshake

Also, Manhattan (1x)

Okay, holiday's over.

2003 Playlist

Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie

Crazy In Love  - Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z

Toxic - Britney Spears

Let's Get It Started (Spike Mix) - Black Eyed Peas

We Will Become Silhouettes - Postal Service

Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

Move Your Feet - Junior Senior

Hey Ya! - OutKast

Emerge - Fischerspooner

The year 2003 was a big year for me, aurally. We had discovered iTunes. I was listening to Radio K. And then there was the girl. All the music that emerged from being a new father, the father of a living child. It was a rebirth. The latest rebirth.