Going down swinging.

What a huge weekend. Saturday I commenced, our son played two gigs (jazz and rock) and then we went out for what has become a family tradition: fondue. 

Today there will be more, more, more. Another rock gig, I have to do a curtain speech, and then we will drive a couch to Athens for the eldest.

This is the craziest month. I love it.

160-169 BPM Playlist

Sugar, We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy

Voices In My Head - Bob Mould

Run a Red Light - Everything But the Girl

Leaving Las Vegas - Tom Petty

The Tears of a Clown - The Beat

Diagonals - Stereolab

All Eyes On Me - Girl Talk

One Call Away - Chingy ft. Jason Weaver

Cold War - Janelle Monae

Oh! Rock Hall inductee Sheryl Crow is the Tom Petty we need. I didn't realize that before, but I like it.

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 35:34
Pace: 8:53

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 60°
Climate: fucking amazing

Mood: excellent

 

Lifted up my head, took in my surroundings, stretching my abdomen. Gorgeous day in the park. Staying away from goslings.

Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec.

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

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 178 lbs. (+1.0)

Goal: 175 lbs.

I feel like I've been run right through the mill.

Those boots.

We did it, we sent a child through public school. I am exhausted.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:02
Pace: 9:21
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: sunny, hot and AWESOME
Mood: excellent
Weight: 182 lbs. (-2.0)

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x) 
Lunch: shrimp tempura roll

Treat: Chocolate covered Oreo (1)

Snack: apple
Dinner: air fried brussels sprouts, pasta with mushroom & veggie meat tomator sauce, beer (1x)

Also, fizzy water (3x)

Boy chose the decade. I was surprised, he hates contemporary music. But seeing as 2012 was almost a decade ago, it is ancient to him. It was a banger. We went hot and fast. He gets his second dose today, no idea what he will feel like tomorrow.

Now we're running.

2012 Playlist

Youth Without Youth - Metric

Drive By - Train

Starships - Nicki Minaj

We Found Love - Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna

Bubblegum Bitch - MARINA

I'm Shakin' - Jack White

Boozophilia - Low Cut Connie

Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO

Oblivion - Grimes

He says he attracts bugs. He is a bit allergic to mosquito bites, they affect him terribly, big swollen welts. Then there's the spider bite he got in NC once, when he was a child. Traumatic, scary and also made him ill for a shot period. And it just hurt. No, he did not get super powers.

Running through the woods makes him anxious, he just feels the itch all over. I can sympathize with that part. That was me, too, at his age. Skin was an enemy. My acne was much worse at his age than his currently is. Cold comofrt.