I made myself so strong again somehow.

But do we run when we have had a seriously messed up sleep schedule? Dropped the wife at the airport at 5:00 AM, drove home and got back into bed. So sleep has happened but I feel dizzy and weird.

Then again, I did have a flu shot and also a Covid booster yesterday! That may also have something to do with it. Okay, we're going with that. 

Distance: 2 miles
Duration: 18:04
Pace: 9:02

JIM STEINMAN SUPERSTAR PLAYLIST

It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Celine Dion

This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy

Paradise By the Dashboard Lights - Meatloaf  

Route: Burlington Loop
Temperature: 80°
Climate: sunny & hot
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: TBD

Upper body: 30 rep

Core Strength: 

Yes, pumping iron when you had a vaccination the day before.

Baseline: 185 lbs.

Weight: 175 lbs. (-0-)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, sausage, egg & cheese McMuffin, hash browns, monster-sized orange juice

Coffee Break: shitty Whole Foods root beer (DNF)

Lunch: pasta salad & Nosferatu

Snack: PB&J, strawberry milk

Writing time: old fashioned 

Dinner: ramen w/fried egg

All those years ago.

Summer 1981. Turning thirteen. Picking up skills. Yearning, longing. Lying in a hammock next to the Birchview, listening to my first mixtape -- a collection of contemporary singles -- on a borrowed Walkman. Dreaming of a kiss. 

Were we ever so old? 

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 28:48
Pace: 9:17

The subject of Jim Steinman came up the other day. One of the actor-teachers speculated on what it must have been like to have been alive when Total Eclipse of the Heart was released and did they know it was the greatest song of all time?

I could attest, we did not. But it was huge. And did you know that was a Jim Steinman composition? And do you know who Jim Steinman was? This is what it is like to be drawn down a rabbit hole by David Hansen. 

So, anyway, I made a playlist for 1981 starting with Jim Steinman's own Rock and Roll Dream Come Through but also one just of songs written by Steinman. I will run to that eventually. But first!

Summer 1981 Playlist
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

Boy From New York City - Manhattan Transfer

Time - The Alan Parsons Project

Elvira - The Oak Ridge Boys

You Make My Dreams (Come True) - Hall & Oates

All Those Years Ago - George Harrison

Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield

Believe It Or Not (Theme From 'The Greatest American Hero') - Joey Scarbury

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73°
Climate: sunny  beautiful
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: TBD

Weight: 175 lbs. (-0-)

Gained no weight during rehearsal period. Huh.

Upper body: 

Core Strength: 

Breakfast: coffee w/cream

Lunch: leftover sub, pizza

Snack: PB&J, beer

Dinner: TBA