Get out what's inside of you.

Yesterday's headache subsided, eventually. The run may have helped. Or not. I made a commitment to run every day this week, I want to run more regularly. 

I will begin the "year runs" as soon as possible after New Year's. What is the point of ritual if you do not keep it?

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 37:48
Pace: 9:26
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 41°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: much, much better
Weight: 178.5 lbs. (+0.5)

I mean, I also had a headache this morning, but it went away.

Okay, so. One drink a day. One sugary treat a day (mostly). Controlling my intake. This weekend, anything goes.

I mean, really. This weekend we risk absolutely everything.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x)

Lunch: tomato soup with rice, bread & butter

Treat: Reese's Big Cup w/Potato Chips (WTF???)

Dinner: pasta w/white sauce, salad

Treat: Twizzlers (2x)

Also; fizzy water (1x)

What's That Lyric?

Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung

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

Don't do me any favors.

Christmas morning.

Dropped the eldest off at the airport this morning at four. That was more difficult than I could have possibly imagined. Yes, they have been at school all semester, but they are now on a weeklong wildness retreat in the Everglades and I have so much fear I did not know I had.

That, and this guy scolded me in the john for cutting in front of him at the sink. I was distracted. I was once scolded by someone touching my car door to the side of their car (no mark) in the parking garage at work, this just after driving there from the hospital where my mom was dying. It makes me feel so helpless and stupid and I don't know what to say, not even an apology.

It's been a difficult morning. I'm glad I got a little more sleep before beginning the day. 

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:57
Pace: 9:39
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 38°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: better now
Weight: 175.5 lbs. (-2.0)

Gear: Long pants, short-sleeved T, rain jacket, winter hat, gloves

See, I could have worn shorts. But it was all right, just all right. Any warmer and that would have been a drag. The gloves came off after mile two. That's not a metaphor, that means that's when I took my gloves off and shoved them in my pocket.

But the winter coat, that waits until it freezes.

Intake

Breakfast: oatmeal w/dried fruit, cream, butter & brown sugar, coffee (3x)

Lunch: Ramen w/mushroom

Candy: Twizzler (4x)

Dinner: cheeseburger, fries, beer

Also; fizzy water (1x)

What's That Lyric?

Get the Message - Electronic

I just don't wanna go out in the streets no more.

There is a trembling in my lips from time to time, which I associate with the overconsumption of sugar. We are the end of sugar season, ad the questions remains as to whether I can resist all the treats that do remain.

Four days at home, if we are to travel to New York (which remains a question) and what will I do with them? I would like to run every day. And have no more than one treat every day, no more than one drink. That by itself would be a major success.

This meme is going around today (see right) proiding cover for those who feel oppressed by the need to do something, rather than enjoy the interregnum.

Well, sorry. Nice theory, but this is the only time the shit gets done.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:50
Pace: 9:37
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 40°
Climate: overcast & cold
Mood: all right
Weight: 177.5 lbs. (+2.5)

It's hard to choose what to wear when it is just above freezing. Long pants make me weary,, they weight me down. Shorts are okay, unless there is rain or wind. God forbid, wind. Today was good, though. My thighs are cherry red and I'm worried about my knees. Nothing in particular, just in general. Body's like a car, it acts funny in cold temperatures.

Gear: winter hat, shorts, long sleeved shirt, gloves

Intake

Breakfast: coffe (2x), 

Lunch: garlic broccoli, rice

Tea time: tea with milk & sugar, Pocky, apple

Snack: 1 oz. Fritos, Twizzler (2x)

Cocktail: Moscow Mule (1x)

Dinner: pasta & sauce & green beans

Also, fizzy water (2x)

What's That Lyric?

Too Many Creeps - Bush Tetras

My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed.

The boy has Covid. The wife is ill as well. The rest of us keep our distance, mask up indoors, and I am working to keep things as clean as possible.

When the working day ended (I am self-quarantined, working remotely) my wife suggested I take a run. Not what I had planned. But why not?

Distance: .85 miles
Duration: 8:08
Pace: 9:45
Route: One time around the block.
Temperature: 480°
Climate: cool
Mood: maintaining

We breathe. We begin again. Not feeling it tonight, my eyesight gets poorer, running at dusk is not my thing. Not in the cold. The streetlights aren't high, I can't clearly see my feet.

And yet, it felt good. Brief run. Maybe again tomorrow?

What's That Lyric?

Brain Stew - Green Day (BBC Live Sessions)

I'm not going out like that.

If the weather is going to be good, I am going to run! It rained all night, this morning it is pushing fifty and so I broke the shorts back out again. Feeling good again!

Listening to Red Hot + Blue, a de facto holiday album. When we toured Britain in early December 1990, it was as though it was playing in all the shops. But is also what it is, a commemoration of a plague, and the loss, and also the joy for life of those who remain, whom we love.

God. All those we lost.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 23:15
Pace: 9:18
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 48°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: good
Weight: 175 lbs. (-1.5)

Intake

Breakfast: banana, cookie (1x), coffee

Treat: wine gums (1 portion)

Lunch: ramen w/green beans

Treat: wine gums (1 portion), brownie (a gift!)

Dinner: pizza, salad

We had a lot of green beans. Still do.

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute To Cole Porter (1990)

Night and Day - U2

I Love Paris - Les Negrgesses Vertes

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Thompson Twins

Too Darn Hot - Erasure

I Get a Kick Out of You  - Jungle Brothers

From This Moment On - Jimmy Somerville

After You, Who? - Jody Watley

Red Hot + Blue, my 30 year retrospective

Let me be by myself in the evening breeze.

Okay. Two days in a row? Good so far. Let's see if our December will improve upon our November. If we go to England (and that is a large "IF" today) I won't have room to take a running kit, which is a shame, but we'll be doing so much walking it won't matter too much, right?

If we go. I don't want to talk about it.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:51
Pace: 9:37
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 35°
Climate: cool & nice
Mood: better
Weight: 176.5 lbs. (-2.0)

Yes, I consumed a great many calories yesterday. But not arbitrarily By choice. Making decisions.

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute To Cole Porter (1990)

I've Got You Under My Skin - Neneh Cherry

In the Still of the Night - The Nevulle Brothers

You Do Something To Me - Sinead O'Connor

Begin the Beguine - Salif Keita

Love For Sale - Fine Young Cannibals

Well Did You Evah! - Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop

Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things - Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues

Don't Fence Me In - David Byrne

It's All Right With Me - Tom Waits

(to be continued)

Red Hot + Blue, my 30 year retrospective

Intake

Breakfast: banana, coffee (2x)

Lunch: turkey wings, green beans, cookie (1x)

Snack: apple

Tea time: decaf, cookie (1x)

Happy hour: Christmas ale, cookies (2x)

Dinner: toretllini w/green beans

All this talking is only bravado.

This morning I wrote about control. I don't like that word, control. It suggests an exertion of power, which is not what I am looking for. Rather, to choose. To start again, and to mke a choice. That every moment is a moment to make a choice, to make a helpful (not "correct") choice.

Huffing as I am walking up the stairs at school is not something I approve of. I will take the stairs, I will not take the elevator, not yet. This remains a choice I can make.

I made cookies this morning, for others. Not for me. I ate one, to see what it tastes like, and that is all.

Yesterday I made unfortunate choices. Two snack bags of Doritos. A very large breakfast. I had a bowl of cereal before sleep, what was the point of that? There is no balance. These are not choices. This is a form of power, my id forcing itself on my ego.

Exercising is also a choice, and one I have made for this morning.

Also, I got my glasses repaired yesterday. Didn't even cost anything. That was a happy thing. More happy things.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 32:08
Pace: 10:22
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 34°
Climate: overcast & chilly
Mood: all right?
Weight: 178.5 lbs. (+1.5) 

Nice, easy run. Perfect temperature for the gear I was wearing. Gentle steps. My knees hurt, both of them. Not where they bend, but on top, where they struck the pavement. But running aggravates that, too.

Life is beginning again. Life is always beginning again.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (3x), cookie (1, a tester)

Lunch: turkey leg, green beans, cookie (1, to enjoy)

Snack: banana half

Happy Hour: beer (1x)

Dinner: mushroom & tofu teriyaki stir fry over rice

Cocktail: Od Fashioned

Also: fizzy water (1x)

See? Choice. Decision.

What's That Lyric?

Tinseltown in the Rain - The Blue Nile

Let me be used.

Thank you, Mr. Sondheim.

Home safe and sound. A low-key run around the pond and back. The ground was damp, but not slippery in any way. I have been achy since I toook my fall the other day. Not the 37 year old man I was when I started this blog.

Using my last pair of glasses, they're plastic, black and blocky. Stupid glasses. Oh, well.

Distance: 2.5 miles
Duration: 24.29 
Pace: 9:48
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 35°
Climate: cold & damp
Mood: all right

Sondheim Playlist

Being Alive - Raul Esparza

Together Wherever We Go - Bernadette Peters

Sooner or Later - Madonna

America - Rita Moreno

Married Today - Madeline Kahn

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd - Michael Cerveris

The voices ring in my head.

We were on our feet all day yesterday, and it was joyous. This year was the first year we prepared a Thankgiving dinner in our home. Ever! Normally we would be in Athens or Lakewood (Lakewood now relegated to memory) or maybe even Minnesota Last year we ordered a pandemic meal from chef Doug Katz.

Pies were baked, sides prepared, and a very well executed turkey, thanks to our son who created and amazing butter mixture to place under the skin. It took all day, we dined at nine. No regrets.

Distance: 1 miles
Duration: 9 minutes
Temperature: 32°

The boy and I set out for a five mile run to and through the cemetery. A little after the one mile mark we encountered a familiar (to me) puddle at the bade of a rise in the turf. I ran up the little hill, as I have in the past, but it was to slippery and a lost my balance. I tried to control my descent but caught the ground with (as I have assessed) my left knee, my right fist, and my face.

My glasses broke, my hands hurt, and my cheek and temple are tender. When I hit I heard a "crunch" which I was afraid might be my skull, but it was just the glasses. They may be repairable, I'm supposed to get new specs at the end of the month.

I rolled onto my back and laughed, I threw my hand up for my son to take. He told me he was afraid at first I put my arm out because I had broken it. I was just saying, "Okay! I'm out!" It hurt. I was wet. It could have been much worse.

Thankful to be whole. Wish I didn't have to go to the show tonight, I'm afraid I'm going to have a bruise. Ah, vanity.

What's That Lyric?

Let Go - Gabriel & Dresden

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

Seasons don't fear the reaper.

Look, if I can't run on a basic Saturday afternoon, I may as well hang it up. Let's run!

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:05
Pace: 9:41
Route: Forest Hillovercast & damp Loop
Temperature: 54°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: okay
Weight: 175.5 lbs. (-1.5)

Weary run, underfed and overdressed. Here's how this needs to go: run either before or right after taking the boy to Saturday jazz. Don't wait, you'll just be hungry.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x), Count Chocula w/milk

Lunch: ravioli, candy bar (wtf?)

Dinner: TBA

Monster Bash Playlist!

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen

Halloween - Siouxsie & the Banshees

Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails

Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Unmarked Helicopters - Soul Coughing

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

I have heard Siouxie's Halloween more times in more places this season ... and I'd never heard it before this month!

There was a girl who had always run away.

Breathe. Begin again.

Good news, last night I had one drink, which I drank slowly as I did homework.

Bad news, my diet yesterday was garbage. A lot of cheese and oil and ham and chicken and hot sauce, Carbs for days. As I sipped my beverage and read my homework, I also scarfed popcorn, chocolate and Halloween candy.

I opened the Halloween candy. I am reporting this here because I am appalled at myself. Confession is good for the soul.

It's gotten chilly. My left arm has been aching for a week now. First my shoulder, on occasion my entire arm. It's unpleasant. I need to continue with the planking, more upper body work. Any upper body work. And the running.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:09
Pace: 9:24
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 48°
Climate: sunny & cold
Mood: aight
Weight: 177 lbs. (+4.0)

Recording my intake has been difficult, because I do not want to admit everything I am eating. But that's why I do it! I will report for a while longer. If I can't write it here, I shouldn't be eating it.

Breathe. Listen to your body. Begin again.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x) 

Lunch: Ramen w/egg

Treat: warm chocolate chip cookies (2x) & milk

Treat: M&Ms

Dinner: roast beef sandwich, curly fries

Also, fizzy water (2x), gum (3x)

Cool run today, broke out the cold weather gear. It has gotten much harder for me to run in cold weather, it can be a drag. Especially if there is any wind. But it felt good to move. 

I finally figured out why my left arm hurts -- I was carrying my phone in my hand, the entire ten miles run on Saturday! Quite the workout, for me.

Songs from "Hadestown" (Broadway Cast Recording)

Road to Hell

Wedding Song

Livin' It Up on Top

Way Down in Hadestown

Chant

When the Chips Are Down

Central Park 10 Mile

Another promise kept. The boy and I are staying in the East Village, and there was a question as to whether we would run to central park, or take the train there. It’s a 3 mile run to get to the park and another to get back. We took the train.

It was colder than I would’ve liked, but at least it didn’t rain. He pushes me pretty hard. I had brought us back to the start after 5 miles, which included a few bathroom stops. But he really wanted to do 10. Wasn’t sure if I was up to it. But hey, he’s here, I am here. This is a moment.

We ran another 5 miles, up and down the mini inclines of the park, another lap around the Reservoir. We’re both pretty exhausted, but grateful.

Distance: 10 miles
Duration: 1:31:12
Pace: 9:05
Route: Central Park, baby!
Temperature: 50 degrees
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: good

We could work it out.

Ugh. The temperature drops, and I lose all interest in running. Is this how it is going to go? I've also developed a habit of eating all and everything. I ate half a loaf of olive bread on Saturday. This is not going to go well.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:11
Pace: 9:25
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 61°
Climate: cool w/light rain
Mood: angsty, energized
Weight: 174 lbs. (-1.5)

Well! If I had procrastinated one minute longer, I would have been caught in a downpour! So that went well. The thunder kept my pace up. The boy and I are going on a journey tomorrow, perhaps we (together) will get a run in!

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (3x)

Lunch: pasta & sauce, fresh tomato w/dressing

Snack: cheese & crackers (4)

Dinner: TBA

What's That Lyric?

Looking for Clues - Robert Palmer

You got me runnin' ... and there's no funnin' it.

Yes, I thought of running this morning, but I went back to sleep in stead (after writing). I think that was the right call. I was just tired.

Tonight wasn't a great run, feeling a little weary. I have been consuming way too many sugars these past several days. Halloween candy has already appeared in my life, and I have been breakfasting, and snacking at rehearsal. It's all too much.

Today I tried to get it back under control. I did such a good job, losing weight slowly over the summer.

But hey, I got a mid-week run in. More of those, please.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:05
Pace: 9:22
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: cloudy & cooler
Mood: all right
Weight: 175.5 lbs. (+3.0)

Intake

Breakfast: Salted caramel pretzel Pop Tarts (damn you, Avery), coffee (3x)

Lunch: monte cristo, notso fries

Snack: grapes, coffee, beer

Dinner: TBA

What's That Lyric?

What You're Doing - The Beatles

I wish that we could talk about it.

Weary run today. Wasn't feeling like going out, glad I did. But I have only had a little to eat and it's afternoon. So, anyway. Maybe a break tomorrow. It's all good.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:17
Pace: 9:46
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: overcast & humid
Mood: all right
Weight: 172.5 lbs. (-0-)

Intake

Breakfast: leftover tofu BBQ wings, carrots & dip, coffee (3x) 

Snack: clementine

Drink: Gatorade

Lunch: big ass salad

Dinner: sunbutter noodle, roasted eggplant, carrot salad, beer

Snack: rice cake w/nutella, banana

What's That Lyric?

Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem

Dark angels follow me over a godless sea.

Beautiful, damp day. Weather's perfect, but feeling a bit not into it. We'll see.

Distance: 3.75 miles
Duration: 32:58
Pace: 8:47
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: good
Weight: 172.5 lbs. (+0.5)

Had a bite to eat, that picked me up a little. And sports drink. The run was strong and beautiful. There was a bricklayer working on the bridge which spans Forest Hills Boulevard. The wall at either end has gotten fucked up over the years, but now it has been repaired. I stopped to thank him for the excellent work, it was a very pleasant exchange.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x), rice cake w/ sunbutter & apple

Drank: Gatorade, also: beer

Lunch: Ravioli

Snack: cheese & crackers, clementine

Game food: hot dog, Doritos, Coke

Dinner: vegan tofu wings, buffalo cauliflower, vegan blueberry cheesecake

I attended a high school soccer game, the only one I have gotten to attend all season. I always get a hot dog, so I got one and I do not regret that at all.

155 - 164 BPM Playlist

Trashcan - Delta Spirit

Run Right Back - The Black Keys

Praying To a New God - Wang Chung

I Saw Him Standing There - Tiffany

Rocky Mountain High - John Denver

Ballet For a Rainy Day - XTC

(Don't Go Back To) Rockville - R.E.M.

Why Should I Cry For You - Sting

Only God knows what you gone do.

Max Temesu

Sugar season has begun. My cravings lead me to cornershops to get Pop Tarts. Before class I get a bag of M&Ms, every class. Soon, there will be Halloween candy, probably even before Halloween, set out in bowls in various places. Then the cookies.

I must be careful. I must be vigilant.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:50
Pace: 9:37
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 64°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: angsty
Weight: 172 lbs. (-1.0)

Spent a week bingeing the Lolita Podcast. That made for a troubling week, but it's so well researched and has so much to say about the way we think about child abuse.

Nabokov's book is too well-made. My dad loved his work, though he wasn't necessarily a fan of this one. Lolita is the confession of a pedophile who kidnaps and rapes a twelve year-old girl for an entire year. If that doesn't sound like what you thought the story was about, it is understandable, as the novel has been wildly misinterpreted in popular culture.

The book jacket featured here is not from any actual publication, but artwork by someone who I feel has best captured the actual narrative. Google the book title and "cover art" and you will probably see hundreds of sexualized images of seductive teenagers, coupled with a few more-nuanced graphics.

Why am I writing about this? Not sure. I'm thinking.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x), sunbutter on rice cake

Drink: Gatorade

Lunch: ramen

Dinner: shrimp tempura roll, mango bubble "tea"

Cocktail: Big, fat old fashioned

Snack: cheese & crackers

Also: fizzy water (2x)

What's That Lyric?

The Message - Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five

One foot in front of the other.

Been wearing a bandage brace on my ankle. It helps? My ankle continues to be hinky. But I'm running!

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 27:46
Pace: 8:57
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 64°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: good!
Weight: 173 lbs. (-0-)

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x)

Treat: PSL, Pop-Tarts

Lunch: pepperoni grilled cheese, chips & diet soda

Snack: beer, M&M's

Dinner: pizza, salad

Also: fizzy water (1x)

Fun Run Playlist!

My Type - Saint Motel

Believe - The Bravery

Can You Do This - Aloe Blacc

Weekend - Smith Westerns

Syndney (I'll Come Running) - Brett Dennen

All These Girls - Atlas Genius

Dance It Better - Fallulah

I Got You - Train

One Foot - Walk the Moon

I want to go back to partying even though I'm old.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 27:43
Pace: 8:56
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: light rain & humid
Mood: all right
Weight: 173 lbs. (-1.5)

Intake

Breakfast: beans, corn muffin w/butter, coffee (2x)

Drink: Gatorade

Snack: pretzels & honey mustard

Lunch: tortellini & basil pesto, four grapes

Snack: Tea, Oreos (2)

Dinner: pumpkin soup, corn muffin w/butter

Cocktail: Dark & Stormy

Also: fizzy water (2x), sm. Coke

155 - 164 BPM Playlist

Electricity - Orchestra; Manoeuvers in the Dark

Come Together - The Beatles

A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls

Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta & Company

Do I Have To Talk You Into It - Spoon

The Ghosts of Beverly Drive - Death Cab For Cutie

Bad Dream Baby - Hippo Campus

Turn To You - The Go-Go's

Mystic bohem.

"Dune" board game (1984)
Happy birthday, Sting.

I feel sleepy. But I must run on weekends. Also, I need to write. So first I must run. Yes? Yes. Okay.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:10
Pace: 9:04
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 66°
Climate: sunny & perfect
Mood: good?
Weight: 174.5 lbs. (-0-)

Teenage Kicks - The Current

Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club

Electricity - Orchestral Manoeuvers In the Dark

Toom Much Information - The Police

Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones

Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley & the Wailers

Roxanne - The Police

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x)

Lunch: Mexican ramen, chocolate covered almonds (5)

Snack: dish of Cheetos, pretzels

Dinner: small vegetarian tacos (2), cookies (2)

Treat: Corn muffin w/butter

Also: fizzy water (1x)

A place we can run.

Muna
(Jacobs Pavilion)

Yeah, we saw Phoebe Bridgers on Wedneday night. I've never been huge into live music, it's a fact. I am a recorded music kind of guy. I was more into it when I was young enough to dance, no one wants to see a middle aged dude dancing at one of these, and so standing around, in a crowd, drinking beer, it's just not my scene.

At the same time, yes. The power of live performance. Especially now. Vaccinations were required, we were asked to wear masks (I actually did, many took theirs off) and it was an outdoor venue and it's still a risk, but the sound, the emotion, the feeling.

I actually liked the opening act more, Muna's set was more eneregetic and upbeat (I know, I know, Phoebe Bridgers) and much of the crowd was there for it, which is always nice, when the opening act is also a big hit.

The boy loves live music, he is live music, and though he and his friend stood away from us (his friend's dad and I) it was cool to see him bobbing his head. I knew there was a lot going on in there.

Distance: 3.3 miles
Duration: 30:12
Pace: 9:09
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 52°
Climate: cool
Mood: angsty
Weight: 174.5 lbs. (+4.0 lbs.)

Okay! This is a problem!

Muna Playlist

Silk Chiffon (ft. Phoebe Bridgers)

Bodies

Number One Fan

Motivation (Recorded at Electric Lady Studios)

I Know a Place

Stayaway (Now, Now Remix)

Bodies (Tycho Remix)

I Know a Place (Acoustic)

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x)

Lunch: Mexican ramen (for real!), guac & chips (1 or two)

Dessert: Hot fudge sundae (two scoops) with pretzels (3x)

Snack: pumpkin seeds

Dinner: tortellio w/pesto, beer

He consoles himself that he's got his health and he knows he can't complain.

The world after Columbus.

My second colonoscopy looked pretty good, complete details to come. I slept through the last one, this one I woke up halfway through and listened to the doctor, looked at the screen. Pretty clean, a few small polyps believed to be benign.

Get used to this kind of talk, it's only going to get more graphic as the years go on.

Distance: 3.1 miles 
Duration: 28:39
Pace: 9:14
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 64°
Climate: overcast & cool, perfect
Mood: good
Weight: 170.5 lbs. (+1.5)

150 - 159 BPM

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service

Bushfire - The B-52's

Good Times - INXS ft. Jimmy Barnes

Goodbye Girl - Squeeze

Subterranean Homesock ALien - Radiohead

I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

The King of Bedside Manor - Barenaked Ladies

World Before Columbis - Suzanne Vega

Tell me that I won't feel a thing.

My dudes.

Colonoscopy tomorrow, my last was five years ago. All liquid diet today. And yet, I run.

The days are defined now, I have returned to daily writing. It makes a difference! It truly does. It's not what is written, it is the act of writing.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:12
Pace: 9:24
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 66°
Climate: bright & cool
Mood: good
Weight: 169 lbs. (-4.5 lbs.)

Z surprised their brother this weekend with a visit home so they could catch his gig at the Beachland. We wear masks, we are vaccinated. The dingbats say we wear masks because we "fear life" but I'm not seeing it.

150 - 159 BPM Playlist

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits

Cheating On You - Franz Ferdinand

Banquet - Bloc Party

Give Me Novacaine/She's a Rebel - Green Day

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead

I'm getting older, not getting wiser.

Oof. Long week. Rising at 4:45 AM every morning to write and get out of the house by six. Utterly exhausting. It has also been cold and rainy, but not at the moment, and it was a very good week. A run is my reward. 

Distance: 3.75 miles
Duration: 35:02
Pace: 9:20
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 64° 
Climate: cool but humid
Mood: good!

I have now had as mny runs this year as I did last year, which is surprising as we were in quarantine last year! I thought I ran a lot then, but I guess I had my ups and downs then, too.

150-159 BPM Playlist

How Did This Happen?! - Bodega

Weird Fishes - Lianne La Havas

Tandem Jump - Jonathan Richman

Dry the Rain - The Beta Band

Love Me Like You - The Magic Numbers

All Night - Walk The Moon

Pastime Paradise - Stevie Wonder

Ten Duel Commandments (Instrumental) from "Hamilton"

The Generator - Lilys

This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy

Easy does it. At times, too easy.

Coke adds life (where there isn't any.)

Yep, there we go. Perfect running weather and I can't find time to run. Yes, this year it's classes and writing assignments, but it's always rehearsal period (except for last year) and family responsibility. I have to be training for a fall marathon to keep up.

And food. I like food. And I'm eating it to feel happy. And that's not why you eat food.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:30
Pace: 9:50
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: all right
Weight: 173.5 lbs. (-0-)

I hve stopped writing in the morning, or writing my feelings, which I has had a change in my psyche and focus. Each day runs into the next, and while that might be good for some it is not for me. I should resume at least a page of personal insight, dreams, persoanl commentary, just to make concrete in my own mind where I am and what is happening.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), banana
Lunch: iced coffee, granola & yogurt w/seeds & dried fruit and honey

Snack: Veg straws, chicken ramen, Coke (for my HEADACHE)

More snack: (because HEADACHE) almonds, dried cranberries, cornnuts

Dinner: bagel, cream cheese, cheese, porter

Also: fizzy water (1x)

Queasy, headachy, unsettled. Must continue to run, through the week.

What's That Lyric?

Koka Kola - The Clash

You got me shaking, got me running away.

Drop the child off after brunch at Casa so they could rest (they were up later than they planned, helping an intoxicated colleague) and do homework.

Then the wife and I headed to the bike path for a little exercise before cleaning up, packing up and shopping out.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 27:05
Pace: 9:01
Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 84°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: good
Weight: 173.5 lbs. (-0-)

Intake
Brunch: coffee (3x), huevos rancheros w/home fries, Van Helsing
Snack: Combos (small pack)

Dinner: Special K w/whole banana

What’s That Lyric?

Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO

You gotta be cool. You gotta be calm. You gotta stay together.

Squatting on the floor of the dorm.

It's Parents Weekend at Ohio University! We aren't engaging in any of the collective university activities, just happy to spend time with the elder one and hang around the Wolf Homestead.

Last night they took us the a drag show at the Union, so that was cool. Later some other Heights parents with Bobcats are coming by.

I took a run past Peden Stadium, and the football game. Usually I park there, but for obvious reasons not today, starting instead out by Union Street. Beautiful day.

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 36:52
Pace: 9:13
Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 79°
Climate: little fluffy clouds
Mood: good

Daily Mix Playlist

Beating of Hearts - XTC

Freedom! '90 (Back To Reality Mix) - George Michael

My Antarctica - Duran Duran

Can't Get There From Here - R.E.M.

Rasputin - Boney M.

You Gotta be - Des'ree

Down In the Cockpit * - XTC

Up All Night - Boomtown Rats

Read My Lips - Duran Duran

Nobody worry about me.

No run on Labor Day. Sunday was a bit overwhelming, and I felt like I needed a break. But, OH. The wild ride I went on with the boy. He's in conditioning for wrestling season, and wanted a short-but-fast run. I chose the 160-164 bpm list. It was fun, a bit overwhelming, but going uphill part of that second mile was really challenging.

Dusk. Dusk is so weird.

Distance: 2.55 miles
Duration: 21:02
Pace: 8:15
Route: Horizon Loop
Temperature: 77°
Climate: nice.
Mood: good
Weight: 173.5 lbs. (+4.5)

Yes, I put on four and a half pounds in three days. Granted, it's night now, and that was in the morning. But I need control. Too many meals, too many snacks, too much alcohol, too many carbs and not enough fruit and vegetables.

I need to skip breakfast (or just have fruit) and pack my lunch. The drinking, well.

What's That Lyric?

I'm Alright - Kenny Loggins

Intake

I'm not telling you.

You break off your plans for the weekend.

I realized on Friday that I was walking about leaning forward. Hunched forward. This is not a good thing. This is a bad thing, I must stand up straight. Great deal of sitting, in rehearsal, in class. I feel it in my right hip, in my backside. Sit up straight. And plank, whenever you can. Upper body strength, core strength. Keep addressing these. 

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:10
Pace: 9:25
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: sunny & breezy
Mood: all right
Weight: 169 lbs. (-1.0)

I try not to eat before running, if I am going to run. This used to be a problem. I'd be hungry! But I'm not hungry in the morning. I'm just not. Don't feel light-headed, just not into cereal anymore, except for a treat. I can go all morning without eating. Why is this? It did not used to be so. Am I changing? Is this age? It's weird.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: pepper cheese bake

Reading beverage: Black currant old fashioned (and extra ice)

Treat: Kraft Mac & Cheese ice cream (1 scoop)

Snack: Cheez-Its

Cocktail Hour: Black currant old fashioned

Dinner: WAY too much cheese and crackers, roasted squash, faro salad

Also: Fizzy water (2x)

One hundred runs in 2021. Didn't think I'd run so far. Good work!

What's That Lyric?

Watch the Tapes - LCD Soundsystem

Jump in the race.

Last time out I felt this pull in my back, like I was about to seize up or something. It was an easy assumption that it's because of the fact that I now carry my laptop every where in a satchel thrown over my shoulder. So I need to look out for that. I can carry it by the handles, but that can also could stress, and besides, hey. Shoulder strap.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 27:25
Pace: 8:50
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: sunny & beautiful
Mood: all right
Weight: 170 lbs. (-1.0)

Friday Intake
Breakfast: Special K w/bananas & peach, coffee, PSL

Lunch: monte cristo, notso fries (half order), Coke Zero

Treat: candy bar, Guinness
Dinner: vegan chicken sandwich, dumplings 

Also: fizzy water (1x)

Teenage Kicks - Block Rockin' Weekend

The Go Go's

This Town *

Club Zero

Head Over Heels *

The Specials

You're Wondering Now

Gangsters

Concrete Jungle *

Patti Smith

People Have the Power (Live at The Current)

Free Money

I liked the Go-Go's for a while. Funny how "cool" works, Belinda Carlisle's foray into schmaltzy late 80s soft pop lost cred for the entire band ... and that's not right. Sting's solo work is also air-pudding, but that hasn't changed how I feel about the Police. 

"Club Zero" was a new Go-Go's single that came out last year. Yay, reunion. I've heard it often enough to decide I really hate it. Especially the chorus, it sounds like the theme song to both The Monkees and The Banana Splits, which you have to admit are thematically similiar.

We're here! We're powerful! "No fucks given!" ... an actual lyric. I mean, you sang "I'm Mad About You," Belinda. "Heaven Is a Place On Earth." I guess I'm withholding judgement.

I have tried marijuana, I get nervous every time.

This is 53.

We are maintaining. My homework has been dense, hard to read, both in text and also its image in the form of scanned PDFs. My sight is becoming an issue.

Running in the dark can hurt my back, if I do not know or misjudge where my foot is going to fall. This did not used to be a problem, but then I did not used to have back problems.

Anyway, good morning.

Distance: 3.3 miles 
Duration: 31:08
Pace: 9:25
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 61°
Climate: cool
Mood: all right
Weight: 171 lbs. (+1.0)

Now it is cool. Early runs can be dangerous for other reasons, too. Unwise dinner choice led to intestinal distress, let's just say that. 

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), banana, doughnut
Lunch: mushroom stew over rice, peach, Oreos (2)

Happy hour: Guinness, M&Ms

Dinner: Salad w/spicy chicken

Striving hard not to snack during rehearsal. We maintain, we maintain. This is the time of year year when I begin gaining weight. Can we flip that? For the sake of consistency?

Daily Mix

Lifetime Piling Up - Talking Heads

Elegia * - Joy Division

Joy Division Oven Gloves - Half Man Half Biscuit

White Mice - Mo-Dettes

Six Different Ways - The Cure

Play For Today * - The Cure

Never Say Never * - Romeo Void

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths

The future looks bright.

Saturday, I just said fuck it and ate everything. Breakfast cereal, they brought home baba and I ate that. Then we went to a ballgame and there was beer, a pretzel and nachos. We ended the evening at Bette and had polenta fries and a vegan Caesar. I regret nothing, that was a good, hot and overwhelming day.

Today is the first day of resdency rehearsal, so of course I kept waking up all night. I rose at 4:30 to run but it was storming out. Fortunately, I had homework, so I just read at the kitchen table until the thnder and lightning passed and I could take a run between the raindrops (back to your door). 

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:19
Pace: 9:28
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: after the storm
Mood: upbeat!
Weight: 170 lbs. (-0-)

The Nightfly - Donald Fagen (1982)

I.G.Y.

Green Flower Street

Ruby Baby

New Frontier

The Nightfly

Walk Between the Raindrops

Maybe it was Lennon's swan song, the Elvis-inspired (just Like) Starting Over, or just encroaching middle age that inspired all these 1970s rock stars to start producing either melancholy  or embarrassingly poppy tributes to their younger days. 

See Don Henley's Boys of Summer or Billy Joel's entire An Innocent Man LP.

Donald Fagen, he of the acid-lyriced yacht rock ensemble Steely Dan, walked the finest line between satire and nostalgia with The Nightfly and the commentary wasn't lost on me, at the age of fourteen I "got" the message of its opening track I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) which never gives away the game. It is openly optimistic about the untold possibilities of science and commerce ... but that year was 1957.

The song never asks the obvious question, "What the hell happened, man?" This dry wit is with me today, and explains why I make patently absurd observations on Facebook, and why my white male colleagues can help themselves but need to explain exactly how I am wrong.

This album defined my high school years, and it remains one of my absolute favorites.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), PSL, doughnut (1)
Lunch: Sittoo’s Business Special (half)

Coffee break: coffee & cream

Happy hour: beer, m&ms
Dinner: Mushroom stew over brown rice

Also, two oatmeal coconut cookies 

Okay, a run before rehearsal. Ok! Now, we need to watch what we consume during rehearsal. This is where the holidays truly begin.

Why am I so soft in the middle now?

When you eat a lot of hot salsa the night before, you may have intenstinal distress. Just a tip.

Distance: 3.75 miles
Duration: 34:25
Pace: 9:11
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: hot & sunny
Mood: good
Weight: 170 lbs. (+1.0)

Listening to Yacht Rock this week, thanks to onset of Labor Day and Mr. Chris Molanphy. Thanks, "Hit Parade" podcast! We are smooth.

Thursday Intake
Breakfast: coffee, protein smoothie

Coffee Break: latte
Lunch: vegan chicken sandwich and vegan cheese covered fries (half) 

Dinner: quesadillas w/beans & rice

Also: PSL, absurdly large lemonade, Guinness

What's That Lyric?

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon (and numerous uncredited Black South African musicians.)

Today I learned "She's Gone" and "Baby Come Back" are the exact same song.

I've gotta get a new balm.

Last night, I slept. I have resumed dreaming dreams I scarely remember. I wish I wrote. Running, not writing. That should be on one of those inspiration plaques like "Waving, Not Drowning."

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:12
Pace: 9:05
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73°
Climate: after the rains, overcast & humid
Mood: all right
Weight: 169 lbs. (-0-)

Intake
Breakfast: coffee, protein smoothie

Coffee break: latte
Lunch: vegan chicken sandwich and vegan cheese covered fries (each cut in HALF)

Treat: Pop Tarts
Dinner: cucumber soup w/almonds, cheese & bread, cherry tomatoes, beer

Dessert: Sherbet (1 scoop), Manhattan

Also, fizzy water (1x)

El Oso - Soul Coughing (1998)

Rolling

Circles

Blame

St. Louise Is Listening

Houston

$300

I Miss the Girl

Warm-Down:

So Far I Have Not Found the Science (0.25 miles)

The boy has informed me that El Oso is the best of Soul Coughing albums, this is from a kid who has long loved the band, and I was surprised. But I have to admit he is more qualified to judge (he thinks the bass and drum on this record is outstanding) as he is without bias. 

I have a personal connection to their first two albums, listening to them as they were contemporary. Just prior to the release of this, their third and final record, a surprie concert was announced at the Euclid Tavern and we got tickets, very excited to see the act.

They played El Oso, their as yet unreleased album, in its entirety, and nothing else. Maybe they played one familiar tune as an encore. And Doughty was high as a kite, his patter was virtually incomprehsible. He asked as to all refer to him as "Your Junta."

"I will be your Junta!" he proclaimed, a joke which was funny to no one but himself.

Anyway, we are opening our hearts to this record. Lyrically, there are only a few choice moments and a lot of repetition. But that drum and bass, though. The boy isn't wrong about that.

You know you ought to slow down.

Respect.

Oh my God, this life.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:30
Pace: 9:11
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73° 
Climate: sunny & beautiful
Mood: all right
Weight: 169 lbs. (-1.0)

The boy is making smoothies for breakfast. It is not my intention to "bulk up" but someone has to drink the rest of this. Also: need to watch the grazing. WATCH THE GRAZING, DAVID.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), protein smoothie
Coffee break:latte

Lunch: Sitto's lunch special (you know it)

Snack: Diet soda, apple

Happy hour: beer (2x)
Dinner: bean & greens stew over sourdough bread w/homemade hot sauce

These new Sauconys are good shoes, man.

What's That Lyric?

Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band

I hear footsteps.

Suggested serving size.

No alcohol Friday night, and I woke up Saturday with something like a hangover. I hate my head.

Also, my left ankle. It's been hurting, I bought the Sauconys because they provided extra support to the ankle, but still. Weakness.

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 39:34
Pace: 9:53
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 81°
Climate: sunny & hot!
Mood: all right
Weight: 170 lbs. (+1.0)

Saturday Intake
Breakfast: coffee, Monster Mash cereal & milk
Lunch: cold pizza (2 slice), Doritos (tiny bag)
Dinner: too many rebaked nachos

Also; 2 beers and a Zima

What's That Lyric?

Heartbeat - Psychedlic Furs

I wonder what you're living for.

As my mother used to say, "Well. I'm glad you got that out of your system."

Today is not a day I would choose to go running. It's very hot. I had a poor night's sleep. And I feel weak, disengaged, numb, depressed. I'm not actually numb, I feel like crying. I feel like giving up on everything.

But the boy and I just got new shoes from Second Sole. Saucony, that's a first. He was leaving as I got home, and he encouraged me to take a run, which was thoughtful.

I'm tired. I feel like doing nothing at all. Once my father had a terrible headache (he told me this story) he was a young man and his head hurt so much he couldn't stand it. He said he took ten aspirin, figuring they would either kill him or make his pain go away. Anyway, it didn't kill him.

I have no idea if this is a smart thing to do. It doesn't feel like it. But I keep dithering her at my laptop because I have no idea what else to do.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 30:26
Pace: 9:22
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 79°
Climate: hot & sunny
Mood: very bad
Weight: 169 lbs. (-1.0)

It was difficult, but not hard. Not much speed, but I felt good. Managing rush hour traffic, and the Greek Festival. Watching pedestrians and parked cars and stopping at all intersections.

Saw some bullshit at the main intersection, up the hill. Not paying attention to people in the crosswalk when trying to make a left turn in front of oncoming traffic. Blowing your horn three times to let people know you know you're running a red light, but I don't care. Assholes.

Heading down the hill I see a car coming to a stop at a side street at the stop sign, so I run through. Then they accelerate. I shouted, they saw me and looked shocked as they peeled past, missing me by feet.

I am going to get killed. Someone is going to kill me.

Nice new kicks, though.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: pizza (1 slice), salad, cupcake
Dinner: nachos w/pico de gallo, corn on the cob

Dessert: cookies, milk

Also, fizzy water (1x), mocktail

What's That Lyric?

First Wave Intact - Secret Machines

You should be horizontal now.

Two shitty nights of sleep in a row. Headachy this time, for no reason. I try to postpone breakfast but I felt sick to my stomach. Often I'll just reach for cereal and milk but that doesn't sit well. So, a little protein instead.  

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 27:33
Pace: 8:53
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 75°
Climate: sunny & glorious
Mood: all right
Weight: 170 kbs. (-1.0)

Took all day to feel something like normal. I even took Sudafed to try and open my sinuses, but I just feel low all day. Coming home howevere, the sun was bright, the sky was clear, and so was my head.

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), eggplant parmesan 
Happy Hour: Guinness
Dinner: pizza (2 slices), salad

Also, fizzy water (1x)

Summer 2021 Playlist

Chaise Longue - Wet Leg

Solar Power - Lorde

Freedom - Jon Batiste

Rumors - Lizzo ft. Cardi B

Smile - Wolf Alice

I Need Some of That - Weezer

Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo

Bad Dream Baby - Hippo Campus

The Gathering - Frank Turner

God, what a beautiful night. Running at full speed. Enjoying the world outside. I have waited weeks to get back to this.

No way to run from it.

What we're listening to this week.

Here's a thing -- my ankles were very weak last week, after my last run on Wednesday. Even for a few days after that, it was surprising, Maybe next day weakness or soreness, but it last for a few days. Also, my shins. Like the beginning of shin splints. I did some exercises. 

I expect, these days, to start wearing down if I run every day. It's what happened during training two years ago. My sciatica was giving me trouble driving to and from Athens, I have been doing an unsusual amount of lifting, helping our child move into their dorm.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:07
Pace: 9:42
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 72°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: all right
Weight: 171 lbs. (-0-)

I will have several good nights of sleep in a row, then suddenly not. And I have been good about not drinking before bed. Not true, I drank before bed Monday night and had a delightful sleep. Last night I just tossed and turned. Why? No idea. Often it is emotional, I'm fretting about something. But I had nothing particular on my mind. Just could not fall asleep. 

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x)
Lunch: eggplant parmesan, watermelon

Snack: small bowl of potato chips, rice cake w/Nutella
Dinner: squash tacos w/beans & corn, yogurt & cheese

Also: juice soda (?), fizzy water

oh shit, oh fuck playlist

It Wasn't Me - Shaggy ft. Rik Rok

Studio-1 - La Flotte 411

Welceom to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

Toxic - Britney Spears

No Hago Reggaeton - Oneclown

Afraid of the Dark (Sock Jock Remix) - Biscuit Sundown

Un;Idea geniale - Kamiko

Some folks have not done a close reading of the assignment.

Something's got to give.

Gentlemen will run with shirts.
Others are asked to.

Last Wednesday a storm blew through and we lost power for almost two entire days. Those were two strange days, even if I did spend part of them in my office downtown. That was also confusing.

Anyway, I did not pay much attention to my intake. I was eating whatever, it's a sign of weakness, I know. The ansence of electric light and air conditioning rendered me somewhat bewildered. And exhausted. It was very hot.

Then, over the weekend we traveled to drop our eldest at college. Yes, that happened. And again, we ate. And I tried not to worry about it too much. Big brunch at Casa. A decadent (and expensive) meal of beef at the Blennerhassett Hotel. And fast food on the way home.

I have also been suddenly plagued by an unspeakable condition which is causing pain and distress. It makes me wonder how I will be able to run. Regardless, I got this far. I can't backslide now.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:17
Pace: 9:46
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: overcast & damp (ugh)
Mood: all right
Weight: 171.5 lbs. (+1.5)

Good run, glad to be back again. Very glad to be back on the streets.

Monday Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), granola with yogurt, banana & peach 

Coffee Break: latte, three small sugar cookies

Snack; apple, diet Coke
Lunch: small bowl of potato chips (what)
Dinner: salad, vegan pizza

Nightcap: Manhattan

oh shit, oh fuck playlist

Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Bodies - Drowning Pool

Be Like Me - Ms. Toi ft. Nelly

Cat Flag - Grow Rich

Jesus, Etc. - Wilco

Aerodynamic - Daft Punk

The Rat - The Walkmen

Moves so fast! Moves so fast.

On your left.

Evening run, morning run. Why not? It's still summer, and I'm still in one piece.

Distance: 2.25 miles
Duration: 20:13
Pace: 8:56
Route: Noble Loop
Temperature: 78°
Climate: overcast & muggy
Mood: good
Weight: 170 lbs. (-2.5)

Intake
Breakfast: coffee (2x), fresh fruit smoothie
Lunch: baba ganouj & pita

Snack: four small pieces of cheese w/crackers
Dinner: TBA

Also, fizzy water (1x)

155 - 164 BPM Playlist

Thank You For Hearing Me - Sinead O'Connor

Like Eating Glass - Block Party

Where Are We Now? - David Bowie

Shake Appeal - The Stooges

Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals

Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers