Showing posts with label marathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marathon. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.

Never celebrate early.
Joshua Jackson passes Carson Mello
to win the Delaware Marathon
4/19/2026
Twenty-seven years ago yesterday two students committed an act of terror at one Colorado high school, and since then nothing has changed. In fact, it's gotten worse. This is not a good country. And it was never a great one.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:12
Pace: 9:06
DOGBERRY:
But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
- Much Ado IV.ii
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 67°
Climate: overcast & warm
Mood: all right

1967 Playlist
The Beat Goes On - Sonny & Cher
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground & Nico
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher - Jackie Wilson
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - The Monkees
Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & the Shondells
Windy - The Association
Up, Up and Away (160 BPM) - The 5th Dimension

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 161 lbs. (-4.0)

Planks: TBA
Push-ups: TBA
Sit-Ups: TBA

We are in the homestretch. Six runs to complete the list.

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Work your body.

Considering I missed six days, thirteen runs in a month is pretty good. Also, my ankle no longer feels sprained. My heel is no longer in pain. I got up the past two morning, and I didn't even think about my feet. Healing happens, still. Healing happens.

Since members of my family have gone, the time has gone much slower. I think this has more to do with second-week syndrome than anything about them. I was anxious, now I am not. I had been anxious for days -- weeks, actually -- prior to the festival. Then the festival, then ... here. Just here.

Day after day. Time after time. We will be home soon enough, today is for here. 

First (Boy) Run/Walk
Distance: 2 miles
Duration: 20:47
Pace: 10:20

Today the boy taught me about the 1904 St. Louis Olympic marathon, the first Olympic marathon to take place on American soil, so naturally it was dangerous, ignorant, and racist.



Second (Solo) Run
Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 28:22
Pace: 9:27

Route: Martin Point Run
Temperature: 75°
Climate: sunny & hot
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Planks: yes
Pushups: yes

BorderLight | Fringe Unleashed Playlist
The Story Continues - Marco Lys
Street Life - Purple Disco Machine
Tití Me Preguntó - Bad Bunny
Treat You Better (Purple Disco Machine Extended Remix) - Rüfüs Du Sol
Work Your Body - LA Riots

I have gotten so used to playing only music I am already familiar with. Listening to this list is fun, my mind is free. I have had many ideas on these runs, I like the repetition, the dearth of lyrics.