Run while you can, baby.

We have hit a roadblock, or at least it feels like one. The exercise, the commitment continues, but it doesn't feel like it did before. I think that is because I am longing for the temperatures that will take me outside. But at least I have a subscription to the inside, to keep me going.

And I maintain. The wife gets pizza, I have one slice, and a healthy dose of salad. Snacking is minimal, and measured -- and enjoyed.

An Arthur Treacher's opened in town yesterday -- not an April Fool's joke, and honest-to-god Arthur Treacher's opened across from the high school. I hope to visit that soon. 

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 27:37

Relaxed run. Did it, right?

Route: rec center
Mood: sleepy
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

2017 Playlist

Show You the Way - Thundercat ft. Kenny Loggins & Michael MacDonald

Dreams (Colors Mix) - Beck

Perfect Sunday Sun - Nick Heyward

Cold - Maroon 5 ft. Future

Drew Barrymore - SZA

Hard Times - Paramore

Shine On Me - Dan Auerbach

May I Have This Dance (remix) - Francis & the Lights ft. Chance the Rapper

Run for Cover * - The Killers

Onto the ones.

Let them drink inside of my house. Make them smoke outside of my house.

The madmen are running the asylum, but what are you gonna do? I write letters. Actual letters that I send through the mail. Why? Because they are physical objects which travel to their offices. They must be dealt with. And maybe they are shredded, who knows, but that is a physical act which must be performed by someone who is aware that they are destroying communications from a constituent to their elected official.

It is not a social media post, which they will never see. It is not an email which can easily be deleted. And I do not always have the time nor energy to show up. I am grateful for those who do. I am thankful for those who do. I am doing this. I am writing letters.

I am also getting on with my life, because that is important, too.

Distance: 1.75 miles

Duration: 15:49
Pace: 9:01

Took a risk! Stepped out, headed for the rec center , but the air was so nice I decided to head for the park. I knew it might rain, too, and it did. If I'd stuck it out it would have subsided, but I didn't know, that, the wind picked up, the rain went sideways, so I turned around.

Still. Very nice.

Route: To the park & back.
Temperature: 54°
Climate: overcast & rain
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

2007 Playlist

Timebomb - Beck

Merrymaking at My Place (Radio Edit) - Calvin Harris

Foundations - Kate Nash

The Boys - Dragonette

Acceptable in the 80s - Calvin Harris

Fifteen runs in one month. Every other day, more or less. Well done.

I feel the wind.

The weather turns, my head does not know what to make of it. Also, I need to resume writing. The past several weeks have been disorienting. Writing every morning, by hand, lends a consistency, it helps me better understand time. But it has been a strange winter.

It is a Saturday, my first in several weeks (guests, out of town trip) that I spend on my own. It is cloudy and raining but it is also above sixty degrees. Bring on the late 90s techno beats!

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 36:14
Pace: 9:03

March is the month we break out and run the most.  

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 65°
Climate: overcast w/light breeze
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight:160 lbs.

1997 Playlist

Elektrobank (Dust Brothers Remix) - The Chemical Brothers

Y'All Know - Will Smith

We're In Yr Corner - Cornershop

6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Mix) - Sneaker Pimps

The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) - Missy Elliott

Change My Pitch Up - The Prodigy

One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five

Tickertape of the Unconscious - Stereolab

History Repeating (Knee Length Mix) - Propellerheads ft. Shirley Bassey

I ain’t losing track.

The new cat, a goblin, has turned to waking us up at 5:30 for breakfast, and there's not much we can do about it. A squirt bottle has proven ineffective.

I must resume letter writing.

Chilly these past few days, it should warm up soon and I can get outside again.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 25:37

No stops.

Route: rec center
Mood: anxious
Stretches: yes
Water: not enough

Weight: 161 lbs.

1987 Playlist

Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Marshall Crenshaw

I Want Your Sex (pts. 1 & 2) - George Michael

Midnight Blue - Lou Gramm

Little Lighthouse - Dukes of Stratosphear

Lost In Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jim

Big Love - Fleetwood Mac

Got to keep on dancing.

Another few nights out of town, this time for our elder’s thesis show in Chauncey. The days are cooler, which is fine, it is Spring, after all.

Started a campaign a couple weeks back, for the summer project, and it has born fruit. Being a producer of one has long been a thing for me, but at least I have been largely successful. I think, in spite of my telling myself the contrary, I prefer to be in charge of managing my own work.

Also, I need a new book. I brought one to Athens but I finished it and spent Monday night on my phone. I must remind myself there are plays on there, too.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 24:35
Route: rec center
Mood: good 
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

1977 Playlist

Boogie Nights - Heatwave

Dust In the Wind - Kansas

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury

Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac

Cold As Ice - Foreigner

California Sun - The Ramones

Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment - The Ramones 

Telephone Man - Meri Wilson

Ça Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand 

Who's tripping down the lanes of the rec center?

"Almost, Maine"

Spent one night in Minnesota to see my niece in the school play… there’s had been so much familial celebration the past two weekends. And more to come! I have dined out considerably the past two weeks. It’s like we’ve been out of town or something.

I mean, we have. I have. But also not.

I look first to eating less, and better, again, you know?

Distance: 2 miles

Duration: 17:02

Seriously, since last Saturday, I have eaten bacon on five separate occasions. And these days I never eat bacon.

Route: rec center
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

Consistency. I think I have actually learned something.

1967 Playlist

Trip to Your Heart - Sly & the Family Stone

Funky Broadway - Wilson Pickett

Windy - The Association

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Nina Simone

Lucifer Sam - The Pink Floyd

Little Games - The Yardbirds

Mary, Mary - The Monkees

Fourteen consecutive every-other-day runs. Good work. Let's see how the next month goes.

I wish I didn’t miss you anymore.

Today is Calvin's Day, his twenty-fourth birth anniversary. Been thinking about how to appropriately celebrate twenty-five years in 2026. The wife says she doesn't want to think of it. Twenty-five years? How?

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 27:02

It rains, so we head back to the gym. And isn't that nice?

Route: rec center
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

2001 Playlist

Wicked Little Town (Hedwig Version) - John Cameron Mitchell

19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) - Gorillaz

Wish I Didn’t Miss You - Angie Stone

Tanto Tempo (Peter Kruder Remix) - Bebel Gilberto

Because We Can - Fatboy Slim ft. Jim Broadbent

Fell In Love With a Girl - White Stripes

Hash Pipe - Weezer

Get the Party Started - Pink

“The Fates are vicious, and they’re cruel.”