You better get running.

Temperature: 73°
Distance: 3.25 miles
Weight: 176.5 lbs.

Can I run? Yes, I think I can. I have gained weight. I do not fit into my pants, again. Headphones poorly stored on a road trip with frag (sigh). Have not yet gotten the new "shoes". But the weather turns perfect and running is something I must do.

Tomorrow New Yorker's get Summer Streets. Lucky, lucky them. Enjoy the pavement, people. And will endeavor to do so here, too.

Handcream For a Generation - Cornershop (2002)
Heavy Soup
Staging the Plaguing of the Raised Platform
Music Plus 1
Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III
Wogs Will Walk
Motion the Eleven
People Power

With my new car (which has no aux input) I am discovering the album. This one came out ten years ago. It makes me think of rebirth. It is full of joy and fun and humor. Emerging from grief -- personal loss, 9/11... coupled with the fact that we had just learned we would be having another child.  One who is currently sitting nearby, paitning her brother's nails.

Interlude

Some day I will resume running. In the meanwhile, read this incredible story by Mark Singer about a guy who has cheated on a dozen marathons. (The New Yorker, August 6, 2012)

Watching telly. Drinking wine.

Yesterday we took a ferry that passed Marshall Point Lighthouse.

Run, Forrest. Run.

Thursday Itinerary:
Sleep late.
Fishing.
Kayaking.
Lunch.
Run.
First beer.

And it's only two. Tonight we have been invited to my aunt's and uncle's place on Martin's Point.

Distance: 3.8 miles
Temperature: 72° - Humid.

Blow Genius Playlist
Don't Blame the World, It's the DJs Fault - Cobra Starship
Single (169 bpm) - Natasha Bedingfield
Letters From the Sky - Civil Twilight
Infinity Guitars (158 bpm) - Sleigh Bells
Die Another Day - Madonna
Who'd Have Known (169 bpm) - Lily Allen
Go All the Way (Into the Twilight) - Perry Farrell
Somebody That I Used to Know (DJ Mike D Remix) - Gotye ft. Kimbra
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend to Dance With You - Black Kids

I take these pills to make me thin.

Sun higher, temperature hotter. The breeze in the cove is deceiving, the roads, though shaded well in many places, are honest about the summer. My body knows I need water first thing in the morning, my brain sometimes does not get the message.

Distance: 3.8 miles
Temperature: 72°

Blow Genius Playlist
Cheap and Cheerful - The Kills
Obsession (Static Revenger Mix) - Sky Ferreira
Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys
What I Know - Parachute
Spotlight (Twilight Mix) - Mue Math
Invisible - Skylar Grey
Le Disko - Shiny Toy Guns
Sober - Kelly Clarkson
Hurtful - Erik Hassle

Bingo tomorrow night, anyone?

The kids are coming up from behind.

Sunday, 6 PM.

No line at Red's Eats.

On the drive up the wife asks, "Why aren't you running?" The obvious answer is, I broke my toe. Cleaning up the house, barefoot, I just crammed my small toe, right foot, into the vacuum cleaner. I have stubbed my toe before. I knew this was broken.

Not much you can do about that. Taped them together, a day or two later it was no big deal. Bruising went down ... but you couldn't manipulate the toe. I couldn't put my little finger between it and the next toe without some obvious pain.

That was a couple weeks ago. It has also been very hot, and I have been very busy at work and at home. Summer is not downtime, the kids have numerous camps and I have end-of-fiscal-year reports. I could get up early and beat the heat, but put simply, I don't want to.

Training for a race, having a goal, this is such a strong motivator for getting out and doing the running. So is clear, sea air (see: Topsail Beach, Friendship.)

In any event, I am running now, here. And that is good enough for now.

Distance: 3.8 miles
Temperature: 70°

Blow Genius Playlist
Losing My Edge - LCD Soundsystem
Something Good Can Work - Two Door Cinema
This Is What Rock n Roll Looks Like - Porcelain Black
Happily Ever After - He Is We
Helena Beat - Foster the People
Animal (Fake Blood Remix) - Miike Snow
Blow - Kesha

I think I broke my little toe.

See you on a dark night.

This is fun.

Temperature: 77°
Distance: 1.5 miles

Dropped my 2000 Honda Civic off at the neighborhood mechanic for appraisal, and ran home. I was wearing shoes.

My throat remains sore, only much, much less so. Wonder what that was all about. It's very hot. Even tonight, in the upper seventies. My head is like a balloon from the run. My ankle hurts, so do my knees. I want to run barefoot on a beach.

Playlist
Somebody That I Used To Know (DJ Mike D Remix) - Gotye ft. Kimbra
Paddling Out - Miike Snow
Lay Your Cards Out (161 bpm) - Poliça
Oblivion (156 bpm) - Grimes