Hey. Only fools rush in and only time will tell if we stand the test of time.

This week has been challenging. A post-Mother's Day ball game was less-than pleasant because the air was just a bit too chilly (we did defeat the Angels, however.) 

Then on Tuesday, I played substitute at my old middle school (not the same building, but like ship of Theseus, it occupies the same space) and, I'm not getting into this, but agreeing to let my colleague run the class they way she preferred meant I was standing for the better part of five hours.  

I came home and took a two hour nap, which is not my custom, it's not something I can do, sleep for two hours in the afternoon. But I was exhausted. This morning, I woke exhausted, but needed to teach a day-long Romeo & Juliet workshop at my spouse's former place of employment.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 27:23
Pace: 8:49

I thought I would be destroyed, but it was a lovely day. My throat burns from two days of talking, and I did take a twenty minute nap after work, but you know? Sometimes I feel better after a run.

Even when it is cooler than I would desire

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 51°
Climate: overcast and breezy, nice
Mood: driven

Prom 1986

Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen

Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs

Red Red Wine - UB40

If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

These Dreams - Heart

Your Love - The Outfield

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes 

Don't You (Forget About Me) 12" Version - Simple Minds

We have this mini-class reunion happening on Friday, so I was in a mood.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 166 lbs.

Here we go. Can we bring it back. We've been enjoying a lot of high calorie leftovers. Also, cake.

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

You came like a comet.

So, we have been doing the every other day thing for more than a year. Pretty incredible. I am proud of me.

There are things that I have had on my schedule for months which have been brought to a kind of conclusion. The reunion. The commission. I should feel a sense of relief, and in a way, I do.

I'm also really tired. So is the wife. I guess this is what life is now. Maybe it always has been.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 26:04
Route: rec center
Temperature: 25°
Climate: snowy
Mood: okay!

2019 Playlist

(We Don't Need) This Fascist Groove Thang (151 bpm) - LCD Soundsystem

I Feel Love - Sam Smith

Wars - Of Monsters and Men

No One's Easy to Love (167 bpm) - Sharon Van Etten

Boys - Lizzo

Don’t Start Now - Dua Lipa

The Whole of the Moon - Kirin J Callinan

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 162 lbs. (-3.0)

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

Your man in motion.

Running every other day seems to be working pretty well. The knees are not as sore. 

But my gosh, the camp is exhausting. I mean, it's a good time, we're doing good work with the kids. But I wake up at 5:30 and I just want to go back to sleep. I tried not napping after, to see if I could make it to bedtime so I could drop and have a proper sleep, but on Monday it was impossible, I had wanted to nod off all day. A twenty minute nap became an hour long nap and I was just delirious.

Still did some work on the deck, though. So I guess I'm muscling through.

Muscles!

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:29
Pace: 9:30

Watched Andrew McCarthy's Brats documentary last night. Very happy that no one used the term Gen X, not even once.  

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73°
Climate: overcast & hot
Mood: positive
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

"Brats" Playlist

Just Like Heaven - The Cure

Old Time Rock & Roll - Bob Seger

Ride Into the Sun - Lou Reed

Back in the High Life Again - Steve Winwood

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion) - John Parr

Oh Yeah - Yello

Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

Anthony Michael-Hall's people were like, "Keep our client's name out of your filthy mouth."

Upper body: 40 reps 

Core Strength:

   Plank: 60 sec.

   Sit-Ups: 10 

So, today I decided to change it up. Get up earlier and have a run. Maybe that will change my whole deal. At least for today.

Baseline: 185 lbs.

Weight:  175 lbs. (-0-)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, toasted bagel w/lox, cream cheese, tomato, capers

Coffee Break: latte

Lunch: Mac & cheese

Treat: fruit snacks

Dinner: bagel w/sunbutter & applebutter, potato chips, beer

Don't bury me because I'm not dead yet.

What if I took a run today?

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:29
Pace: 10:10

Whoa. Hot and weary. Even walked a few yards. Man, I do not like that.

1977 Playlist

I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You - Alan Parsons Project
Love → Building On Fire - Talking Heads
Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
I Feel Love (12" Version) - Donna Summer & Georgio Moroder
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
You Make Living Fun - Fleetwood Mac
California Sun - The Ramones
Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner

Huh. Foreigner is going to be inducted into the rock hall? Anyone whining about Tribe can fuck all the way off.

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: hot!
Mood: all right

Drop to your knees.

Three days in a row -- in February! How odd. I may have taken a break, but tomorrow is pretty booked so I that will be my break. The goal is to get back up to speed, with my lungs and legs at capacity by March.

Still need to get that additional knee brace. Got to put that on the list. If it's not on the list, I forget. And the list is so important on a Saturday. My Saturdays are for ..? Housekeeping. Groceries. Also, writing and cooking.

We have had this pumpkin sitting here since fall. So? I made a pie. No idea I was going to do that today. That kind of spontaneity I can get behind.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:36
Pace: 10:11

Oh, shit. That was arduous. Perfect day, bright skies, a little cool, low breeze, but shit. I was out of breath. I am unprepared and weigh too much. Worth it? Sure, but fuck.

1992 Playlist

We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Morrissey  
They Reminisce Over You - Pete Rock ft. C.L. Smooth
Hit - Sugarcubes
Not Sleeping Around - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Get Ready - 2 Unlimited
Kiss That Frog (Mindblender Mix) - Peter Gabriel
Candy Everybody Wants - 10,000 Maniacs
Free Your Mind - En Vogue

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 43°
Climate: cloudless  cool
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Flood's Cove: Run Seven

Twenty runs or more every month since March. That's some kind of record. I'm not even training for anything.

One more in before we leave tomorrow. It's been a beautiful week, lots of sun, some really hard rain, too, but that's kept the temperatures reasonable. And by reasonable, I mean perfect.

Distance: 3.5 miles

Duration: 35:12
Pace: 10:03

Route: Martin Point Run

Temperature: 73°
Climate: sunny & nice

Mood: good

Last run, slow run. The past two nights I have not slept well, in spite of it being "good sleeping weather." Last night I woke up all the time, I have bedsores on both hips from how firm this mattress is. And you need to sleep to run well.

Next run, probably Thursday, in Cleveland Heights. I will miss the smell of the sea, of the pine, and the relatively low humidity.

 

Stretches: yes

Sit-Ups: tbd
Planks: tbd 

Upper body: tbd
Water: yes

The Twenties (So Far)

Boys Who Kiss You In Their Cars - Ber

Alive! - Bakar

Hi-Fidelity - Lava La Rue ft. Biig Piig

Good Day - Seratones

Can We Forget - ALEXSUCKS

About Damn Time - Lizzo

The Smoke - The Smile

Open Relations - Heart Bones

Tonight - Phoenix ft. Ezra Koenig

Say Peace - Common ft. PJ & Black Thought

We running and don’t look back.

Forest Hill Park Footbridge

Skipping a day makes me feel wrong. Weird? I guess. It's been a weird week.

Also? Now on Threads (Pengo216).

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 40:16
Pace: 10:04

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 70°
Climate: sunny & humid

Mood: all right

  

Beautiful day, I feel weary, though. Never stopped, just trudging along. Weird, weird week.

Stretches: yes

Planks: 90 sec.

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

Breakfast: coffee w cream, fresh blueberry, blackberry, banana, strawberry, grape, cherry w/granola & yogurt

Afternoon: fizzy water (2x)

Late Lunch: slaw & corn salad, bread w/butter 

Dinner: Caesar salad, BBQ chik pizza (1 slice)

Alcohol? Shandy

Photo: J. Mark Souther

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 169.5 lbs. (-0.5)

Goal: 165 lbs.

Reading: 30 min.

It's like, if I don't write it down, it didn't happen. Or I need a check list to make sure I do the things. And now that includes the reading and the writing.

What’s That Lyric?

Turn Up the Sunshine – Diana Ross ft. Tame Impala

The harder they fall.

Long day, teaching improvisation at a school and hour's drive away. Coming home at 3:00 PM, seventy degree heat, literally almost fell asleep once or twice. Not good. I should have pulled over for a beverage. This is a lesson. 

Distance: 2.5 miles

Duration: 24:51
Pace: 9:56

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 73°
Climate: sunny & hot

Mood: good

Snuck in a short run before heading over to a friend's to see them on Jeopardy. I thought, maybe tomorrow? But there's no way I have time for a run tomorrow. I also need to make sure I don't fall asleep at the wheel.

2014 Playlist

After the Disco - Broken Bells

She's Not Me - Jenny Lewis

Figure It Out - Royal Blood

Animals - Martin Garrix

Timber - Pitbull ft. Ke$ha

Fever - The Black Keys

I'm Not the Only One - Sam Smith

What was 2014? Not great. The year of no plays (there was Seven Ages.) Doing a great deal of research for The Great Globe Itself. Felt as though I blew every opportunity to be a good parent. Like, I there was not one thing I couldn't fuck up.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec.

Upper body: 10 reps
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, oatmeal w/dried fruit, brown sugar, butter & cream 

Lunch: hot dog, fries, veggies & dip, frozen fruit cup, milk

Snack: dried fruit & nuts

Dinner: pizza w/chicken & peppers, veggies, fruit, cookies, Goldhorn pilsner

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 181.5 lbs. (-0.5)

Goal: 180 lbs.

If you should die while crossing the street

I really don't like the cold. Even briefly, just these few days below freezing. I feel uncomfortable, unmotivated, though not (fortunately) unwell. Just a brief dip into the 20s, it's not much of a winter. But I'm not crazy about it. 

Still got some new gear yesterday, new gloves and pants, ordered what I couldn't find in stores online.

Distance: 2.3 miles

Duration: 23:50
Pace:  10:20

Route: Horizon Loop (clockwise)

Temperature: 38°
Climate: bright & cool

Pavement: dry w/some patchy snow
Mood: tired

 

"Clockwise" for the Horizon Loop means I begin with a hill for about a quarter mile. Then it's downhill for the rest of the mile and then mostly flat. Today was the first day I have felt stiff and tired, but it's an evening run not a morning run, so there's your difference.

1979 Playlist

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon) - The B'52's

Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles

The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks

Rise - Herb Alpert

What was 1979? One snow day we made a disco in George's basement, and tried to get girls to come over. The end of elementary school. The family visited Norway. I started middle school, and that's where my troubles began.

 
Stretches: yes ... but not enough
Abdominals: 90 sec.
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/oat cream, fresh fruit smoothie bowl w/mango, pineapple & blueberry, granola & honey

Coffee Break: latte w/oatmilk

Lunch: spinch pie & baba ganouj w/pita

Dinner: Lemon spinach & orzo soup w/chicken, Caesar salad & buttered bread 

Cocktail Hour: raspberry fizzy water

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 188.5 lbs. (+0.5)

Goal: 185 lbs.

We have leveled off at 188 pounds. This is what I weight, eating modestly and with regular exercise. I am hoping that, as the weather improves, I will be able to burn more calories I do not care to consume less than I am currently.

That's all there is.

Woof. Running every day is taking a toll. Calf muscles are sore. Worried I might get taken out by shin splints. Warm weather would help. Spent last night with a bandage on my leg. But these days are cold, will be cold. And I need to press through that.

Part of this is keeping my kits clean and accessible. And making sure this blog is something I prepare in advance. If I do not prepare in advance for a run, getting out onto the street can take forever, and that brings down my mood.

Like right now.

Distance: 2.25 miles

Duration: 23:51
Pace: 10:34

Route: Horizon Loop (clockwise)

Temperature: 32°
Climate: dry

Pavement: sunny, windy & cold
Mood: tired & sore

 

1990 Playlist

Raspberry Beret - Hindu Love Gods

World In My Eyes (Cicada Mix) - Depeche Mode

Vogue - Madonna

Hippychick - Soho

Ring of Fire - Social Distortion

The Sinister Minister - Bela Fleck & the Flecktones

What was 1990? Earth Day! Live-in girlfriend. Twin Peaks. Played Seymour in Little Shop. Fell in love with the person who would eventually become my life partner. Yep.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec.
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/oatmilk cream, pineberries & bananas w/granola & strawberry yogurt

Coffee Break: latte w/oatmilk 

Lunch: spinach pie, baba w/pita

Happy Hour: Tea w/oatmilk cream, Fresca

Dinner: big salad w/feta, pistachios & buttered bread

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 189.5 lbs. (+2.0)

Goal: 185 lbs.

See, that's a reality check. The scale is not strictly accurate. Taking a daily read on my weight is barometer, to be sure. But what is actually going on? I believe there must be foodstuff (excuse me for getting gross) sitting in my system at all times. The level of food needs to decrease, and I am working on that. And that it's food and not non-food. Fat from chocolate, or processed and fried potato and corn. I am trying to purge myself of these things while instead consuming good things.

I didn't really eat much yesterday. The day before, however. Anyway. I was going to take a break from running today, but decided against it. Maybe tomorrow, though! Delayed gratification. And when I take a break, I want to spend it well.

I can feel my lifetime piling up.

Being overweight is not good. If I was just big and happy, that would be one thing. I don't like the sighing I do when I have taken the stairs. Or the sudden sighs I do, out of nowhere. I know weight and activity are not necessarily related. I can exercise and be big. But as I age, I worry about additional taxation on my heart.

These are the things I worry about. And yet, I am also trying not to diet. I want to be, you know, Mindful. That's what the kids say, right? Mindful.

Distance: 2.25 miles

Duration: 25:28
Pace: 11:18

Route: Horizon Loop (clockwise)

Temperature: 31°
Climate: snowy
Mood: oh-ho, yeah. you bet.

1992 Playlist

So What'Cha Want - Beastie Boys

If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugat

Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet

Lifetime Piling Up - Talking Heads

Helpless - Sugar

Model - Balanescu Quartet

Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer

What was 1992? Playing Joseph Merrick. Working for Karamu. Living off Coventry. Starting my first theater company. Getting married for the first time. 

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 120 sec.
Water: yes

Just can't win the race.

Every morning I wake exhausted. I've been sleeping in the past three mornings, and yet it is a drag to get out. Am I ill? Am I uninspired? Am I old? 

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 32:09
Pace: 9:53
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 78°
Climate: sunny & beautiful
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes 
Water: yes

Weight: 181 lbs. (-0-)

Goal: 180 lbs.

Still. Did that.

What's That Lyric

Delirious - Prince

I can deal with falling.

Ok. Ugh. My left ankle began to hurt shortly into my last run. It hurt all day. And the next day. Then my knee again. I don't understand.

This weekend I have also been exhausted. All day Friday, all day Saturday. I have been fortunate in that I can sleep eight, nine, even ten uninterrupted hours.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 32:31
Pace: 10:29
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: sunny & bright
Mood: logy
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec. (2x)
Water: yes

Weight: 181 lbs. (-1.0)

Goal: 180 lbs.

Friday morning, I dreamed that I was running Monticello, very weary, and I fell asleep. While running. I regained awareness, and I was several blocks down the street, past my usual turning.

Took it easily, very easily. Which was just what I needed. I hope this passes soon.

The Twenties (So Far)

Back to Oz - Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine

Montero (Call Me By Your Name) - Lil Nas X

Anxiety - Idles

Security - Amyl and the Sniffers

Postman - Toro y Moi

The Only Heartbreaker - Mitski

It Might Be Time - Tame Impala

Trouble's Coming - Royal Blood

Record Player (with AJR) - Daisy the Great 

Glowing in the Dark - Django Django

Many Times - Dijon

As you smugly walk past you ask yourself, "How did this happen?"

I have been exhausted since four pm. I lay down on the couch and slept for (at least) an hour and I was still exhausted. Nothing to do about it but take a run and see how that makes me feel.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:41
Pace: 9:53
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: beautiful, you know?
Mood: leaden

Stretches: yes
Weight: 189 lbs. (-0.5)

Remarkable. At the start I could barely move my feet. By the end I was running. I still felt heavy, but I was running.

Now I am going to a candlelight vigil for nineteen slain children. I fucking hate it here.  

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x), whole bagel w/cream cheese 

Lunch: onion rings, cheesburger, Coke

Dinner: yesterday's pitza, old fashioned

2018 Playlist

Slide - Naked Giants

The Middle - Zedd ft. Maren mOrris & Grey

Love It If We Made It - The 1975

Chity Looks Pretty - Courtney Barnett

This Is America - Childish Gambino

Superstar - Brandon Victor Dixon & Company

New Rules - Dua Lipa

Get Out - CHVRCHES

How Did This Happen? - BODEGA

I thought that I was stronger.

Terrible night's sleep. I wanted to sleep, but the cat kept waking me up. So I woke with a headache and little desire to do, well, anything. There will be a run today, though. I know that for certain, today and again tomorrow.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 31:24
Pace: 10:28
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 40°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: pain
Weight: 178 lbs. (+2.5)

Gear: winter hat, long-sleeved T, gloves, shorts

That was hard. Very hard. The pain moved from one place in my head to another, I could feel it. Had to walk twice, sick to my stomach. Finished, though. Does it make a difference? I say it does.

Intake

Breakfast: oatmeal w/dried fruit, cream, butter & brown sugar, coffee (2x)

Treat: Pocky

Lunch: Ramen w/mushrooms

Treat: Mochi (1x)

Cocktail hour: Old Fashioned, Chex Mix

Dinner: tomato soup with rice, bread & butter & cheese

Also, fizzy water (1x)

What's That Lyric?

Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae

You're lucky to be alive.

The weather turns, I lose interest. Worse, my diet has been terrible. Sorry. It has been terrible. Since before Halloween I have consumed so much sugar. Also, many fast food stops. 

Like, too many fast food stops. I discovered the Arby's across from the building where I take classes. I mean, it's always been there, but who the fuck would go in? me, that's who. Once I got it into my head. Do you know how terrible that food is? Absurd, I need to cut that shit out.

Sugar, grease. And I can feel it in my mouth. The flesh on my tongue becomes sore. It's awful. I need fresh food. Fresh. Food. Fruit, vegetables. Good things! That is how I ate for most of the last year, suddenly, who cares?

And zero exercise. My nights have been terrible. I take melatonin, and when I do sleep, it is deep an full of crazy dreams. But I wake up half a dozen times. Sore, needing to roll over. I only just realized that maybe it is due to the fact that I am no longer exercising, not at all.

I had to teach the past two mornings. Four classes, back to back. Instructing large classes, and acting, too. Last night I slept well, because I had been on my feet.

So, running it is. Let's run.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:28
Pace: 10:09
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 62°
Climate: overcast & breezy
Mood: weak
Weight: 177 lbs. (+1.5)

Good day for running, but my legs are shaking. Worn out, tired, unhappy. I hit a deer with my car last night. There are other reasons this day sucks, closer to home.

Intake

Breakfast: squash chili & rice, coffee (3x)

Lunch: TBA

Dinner:  TBA

What's That Lyric?

Polyester Bride - Liz Phair

Burning the ground.

I went to bed last night and thought, I am going to wake up in the middle of the night and not get back to sleep. And sure as hell, that is what happened. Personal issues, work issues, artistic issues, school issues. There was no closing the mout of my mind. So? I woke up at 4:00 AM and got some god damn work done.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 34:34
Pace: 9:36
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 63°
Climate: sunny & cool
Mood: all right
Weight: 177 lbs. (-1.0)

My son asked why I do the "year playlist" thing and I told him several reasons. The primary reason, I told him, was for nostalgia. I cast my mind back into my history and it makes me think and remember, and sometimes it can be creatively stimulating.

Of course, another reason is so that I don't have to think about what it is I am going to listen to. Now that that time of year has passed, I must decide, every run. Will it be for BPM? Or maybe a playlist inspired by a certain song or artist, or an album? And I don't like that. I have enough to think about on a daily basis.

Intake
Breakfast: mixed berry crip w/cream, coffee (2x)
Lunch: tofu, beans & rice, cucumber ribbon salad, sliver of carrot cake
Happy Hour: beer (1x)
Dinner: quinoa salad

Also, fizzy water (3x)

Started out weak. Weak ankles, shins, knees. Finished strong, though. Maybe take a day off tomorrow? Yeah, I really should take the day off tomorrow.

Remember that. Take the day off tomorrow.

What's That Lyric?

Come on, man. You know what that's from.

You'd like to be in the race.

Also: This happened.

Rainy and cool. I am a little sleepy this morning. Take a nap -- or a run?

Part of the reason I am tired is because I am running every day. Another because family keeps me up later than necessary. Also, I have not been eating before I run. That last is a thing I should take care of.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:48
Pace: 9:37
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: overcast w/light rain
Mood: squirrely
Weight: 179 lbs. (-1.0)

Intake
Breakfast: Frosted Mini-wheats (serving size!) w/strawberries & banana, coffee (2x)
Lunch: N/A

Treat: Hot chocolate (with shaved chocolate & whipped cream!!!)

Snack: cheese straws
Dinner: vegan cheesesteak, fried cauliflower

Also, fizzy water (2x)

Alcohol: rum & Coke (2x)

We need to talk about Lemonade Mouth.

2011 Playlist

Breakthrough - Lemonade Mouth

Sail - AWOLNATION

Na Na Nothing - Mike Doughty

Ok - Beastie Boys

Blue Tip - The Cars

Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye ft. Kimbra

Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine

Make Some Noise - Beastie Boys

Rolling In the Deep - Adele

Finish strong, Adele.

We're never gonna survive, unless ...

Summer is here, this is a cool break in the weather. Need to resume upper body exercises. But I am glad to be breathing well.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:30
Pace: 10:09
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 66°
Climate: partly cloudy & cool
Mood: all right
Weight: 182.5 lbs. (-0.5)

Lovely weather, but ugh. My feet are lead. I'm just very tired, not enough good sleep. I should take a day off, a good day off. A day of rest. I know I didn't run over the weekend, but we did spend a lot of Saturday and Sunday outdoors, working in the yard and then having the party..

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), heap of fresh fruit & low-fat yogurt
Lunch: leftover vegan business

Treat: Coca-cola
Dinner: pesto pasta salad with brocolli, cauliflower on a bed of greens

Also, fizzy water (2x)

Take it easy on the Coke, bro.

1991 Playlist

Visions of You - Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart ft. Sinéad O'Connor

Tom's Diner - DNA ft. Suzanne Vega

Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & the Boys ft. Aaron Hall

Jughead - Prince & the New Power Generation

Groovy Train - The Fall

Groove Is in the Heart - Deee-Lite

The Choice is Yours - Black Sheep

Crazy- Seal

God. What an amazing time for music. What a strange time to be a young adult.

Neglected Entry

That time I entirely neglected to blog a run. Hasn't happened in over twelve years. Just didn't think of it. Just didn't care.

Today is Tuesday, September 25. Two days ago the boy and I went to the gym. He rode his bike and I ran, then as he did the treadmill at the rec center, I ran two more miles. Then we came home, and by that time I was exhausted. Not just tired, but my muscles were weary, my hip hurt.

Distance: a little more than four miles

Running the treadmill last week, I learned I do not like the treadmill. You must run a consistent speed, and that doesn't work for me anymore. I need to be able to slow down, when I want to slow down, and speed up when I want to speed up, without thinking about it. Keeping the pace consistent makes me shorten my stride, and that does not feel good.

Likewise, I feel that running with the boy riding his boke also does not work. He has longer legs now, he goes faster. And I go slower. I have to run hard to keep up. Not very hard, but harder than I would, you know?

Anyway, I haven't been so ambivalent about running since 2011. These things, they come, they go.