Something happens to you to throw you off course.

Big weekend. State Thespian Festival. Backstage Bash. Going to rain later, time to run now. Beautiful fucking hot gorgeous day.

Distance: 4 miles 

Duration: 38:35
Pace: 9:39

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 78°
Climate: overcast & hot

Mood: good, you know?

Push it out on a warm and breezy Sunday afternoon before the rain. Good playlist, too.

2004 Playlist

Just a Ride - Jem

(Reach Up For The) Sunrise - Duran Duran

This Fire - Franz Ferdinand

Holiday - Green Day

Grown So Ugly - The Black Keys

Golden Touch - Razorlight

Ooh La La - Ditty Bops

Breathe Me - Sia

Walk Away - Kelly Clarkson

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

Whatsername - Green Day

What was 2004? First iPod, which started this entire endeavor. Seriously, without modern audio technology, I would not be a runner. I always ran, but I never ran consistently until this year. Also? New York International Fringe Festival, and the end of Bad Epitaph.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec. (2x)

Upper body:  reps
Water: yes

Saturday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, doughnut

Lunch: Caesar wrap, Doritos, cookie

Dinner: tater tots, chicken strip, GLBC Burning River (2x)

So many events, so few vegetables.

Sunday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream

Lunch: veggie bao, potato chips, fizzy water

Treat: raw cookie dough (yes)

Happy Hour: tea w/cream & honey

Dinner: spaghetti & meatless sauce

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 179.5 lbs. (-2.0)

New Goal: 175 lbs.