why dont you run from me

Father's Day, I got decadent. A cheeseburger and chips for lunch, with a Coke. For dinner, an annual celebration at the Melting Pot ... it began as a celebration of the children's great work over the previous school year some five years ago, now it is a tradition. Why fondue? A Groupon. And yet, sure, why not, stale bread with melted cheese. Totally worth it.

So, that was an exception. Let us remember to make wise diet decisions.

And now, ladies and gentlemen ... 56 Playlists for 56 Years (1964-2019)

2019 Playlist
Can't Knock the Hustle - Weezer
Take On Me * - Weezer
Juice - Lizzo
seconds (electric lady sessions) - LCD Soundsystem
bury a friend - Billie Eilish
Funny Business - Alison Merton
Tempo - Lizzo ft. Missy Elliott
This Time It's Different - Heart Bones

There we go. Doesn't usually take me until June to have this many runs, if it's going to take half a year, perhaps I should abandon this tradition and just create playlists on Spotify, or go back to using Podrunner.

No idea what Podrunner sounds like in the late 10s, perhaps I should find out. I think my iPod is retired.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 25:32
Pace: 8:30
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 60°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Good run, brisk and exciting. Killer geese, a distressed heron and one plucky deer.

Three mile runs, all week. I should find an alternate route, to pick things up. I, too, need tempo.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 167.5 lbs. (+1.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Watch his body writhe.

I did not mean to do this.

How is my body? Not bad. Regular running makes me back hurt, my hip hurt. But you know what? Not running does that, too. Just differently.

The nail on my left big toe has been ... well, you don't want to know. It needs attention. Also, I used to have beautiful arches, now they are falling. Sometimes that hurts.

Week One Total: 18.75 miles
Training To Date: 18.75 miles

Also, Happy Father's Day. Last night was rough, I stuttered the first line of the play, that was something new. My tongue balled up in my mouth and I couldn't speak.

This is why I hate acting, I can't trust my muscles or my brain, it's terrifying. I wouldn't trust to put me in a play, ever.

Distance: 6.75 miles
Duration: 1:04:25
Pace: 9:32
Route: Uptown Loop
Temperature: 64°
Climate: overcast, cool & humid
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Very nice run with Chris, down through Lakeview, around MOCA and up Murray Hill. We both made our way up that hill will little issues, kept chugging along, never stopped. We're both much stronger than we were at the beginning of the year.

Talking Chicago, are we going to try for four? I've done my four hour marathon, twice, and I am uncertain I will ever break my time in the Twin Cities. This is Chris's first full marathon, though, so I am following his lead. And if breaking four hours is the goal, so be it. I think we can both do that.

One so we completed our first week of marathon training! This would be an excellent day to support my TEAM CHALLENGE campaign to find a cure for Crohn's and colitis! Will you join the team, and get us to the finish line? Hit the TEAM CHALLENGE button at top right (or this link!) Many thanks!

1969 Playlist
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreux - Led Zeppelin
We Got More Soul - Dyke & The Blazers
The Acid Queen - The Who
I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
Someday We'll Be Together - The Supremes
The Chokin' Kind - Joe Simon
A Boy Named Sue (Live) - Johnny Cash

One more playlist. What will 2019 bring? Any suggestions?

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 166.5 lbs. (-1.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

You run to the store for quick relief.

Upstart Mechnicals Improv Club

One week of camp down. Last night's performance of King Lear was off the chain (and isn't that an odd sentence.) Stayed out, rose late, and yet -- time for a brief run.

These are brief run days. I will need to make some sacrifices in the near future.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 25:01
Pace: 8:20
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature:
Climate: overcast, cool, with light spotting (i said it)
Mood: determined
Water: no!

Totally forgot to drink any water, at all, before going out. Luckily it was not a problem -- today. Adding that to my checklist. A little rushed this morning, the kids have their culminating Heights Music Camp performance. But it was a brisk, cool run. Cool, but sweaty.

1979 Playlist
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
My Sharona - The Knack
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
She's Lost Control (Peel Sessions) - Joy Division
Rapper's Delight (12" Version) - The Sugarhill Gang
Even the Losers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 167.5 lbs. (-2.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Woke up the same morning, I felt fine.

Selling hip-hop to white people.

Got a decent night's sleep last night. Driving home from camp I was seriously drowsy. Got to watch my daughter's summer league soccer game last night, when was the last time I got to do that?

Today we reached the 3/4 mark to our goal in my TEAM CHALLENGE campaign to find a cure for Crohn's and colitis! Will you join the team, and get us to the finish line? Hit the TEAM CHALLENGE button at top right (or this link!) Many thanks!

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 26:06
Pace: 8:42
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 59°
Climate: cloudy & cool
Mood: good

Nice, brisk run. Gonna rain later. Today the wife was supposed to resume her writing schedule but she was up all night coughing, poor thing. She moved into another room to let me sleep, for which I am much appreciative.

Theater camp is also going well, so far. An auspicious start to the summer. Plans are being laid, the girl and I will run in Central Park in July. Training will take place everywhere.

1989 Playlist
Freedom of Speak (We Got Three Minutes) - De La Soul
Waiting For Mary (What Are We Doing Here) - Pere Ubu
The Sensual World - Kate Bush
Jenifa (Taught Me) (12" Version) - De La Soul
Eye Know (The Know It All Mix) - De La Soul
Cuts You Up - Peter Murphy

Nineteen Eighty-Nine remains the greatest year in the history of popular music. Fight me. They say the year you turned twenty-one is the year you will thin was the best in pop music history, but in this case, it's true. After the doldrums on the mid-80s, hip-hop was making its move into the mainstream, 80s solo artists were releasing their very best work, the only person who did not succeed in 1989 was Prince.

"Throw it."

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 169.5 lbs. (-1.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Until the ocean covers every mountain high.

Good morning.

Today would be for either cross training or rest, but as I did not run on Monday, today I ran instead.

Rose at 5:00 am, as a nice change of pace, to write. It has been a while. rather than free writing, I used this time to gather my thoughts from the other night's reading of the marathon play. This will eventually become a blog post.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 25:06
Pace: 8:22
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 57°
Climate: no clouds, cool
Mood: positive

What a glorious morning, just as the sun was rising. End of the century tunes, cool and trouble-free. my body feels great. No pain (okay, slight pain, left hip, that's not going away, ever) clear head, strong, light, moving easy strides, things are going very well on day two.

I'm taking the month of June to remind you of this TEAM CHALLENGE campaign, and reach my goal of $2,000, to find a cure for Crohn's and colitis? Will you kick in something today? Hit the TEAM CHALLENGE button at top right (or this link!) Many thanks!

1999 Playlist
Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65
Machete - Moby
Thursday's Child - David Bowie
As - George Michael ft. Mary J. Blige
The Carpet Crawlers 1999 - Genesis
Cups - Underworld

Camp is also going well, in our quadrant, after two days. Energetic, enthusiastic participants, most of whom are returning after several years. That must mean we are doing something right.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 171 lbs. (+2.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

That would be the Doritos.

Put your skills on show.

James Rankin is Pengo

Yesterday was to be first day of training. I woke at 2 AM feeling headachy and sick to my stomach, and hardly got back to sleep the rest of the night. Also, I was fretting about the first day of summer theater camp. I felt worse and worse, but I had to go in. There were too many responsibilities I was the point person for, and I had promised to drive a camper from the Heights to Berea for the camp. I had to go, I couldn't call in sick.

What was strange was that I never felt like this, a hangover, a migraine, these things give me a debilitating headache which makes me feel ill. The headache subsided, but I still felt ill. Driving across town, I thought I would vomit, or shit myself. Neither of these things happened.

I got to camp, Shaun found a place in the dark for me to lie down, I rested for a half hour just before camp started ... and I felt fine. What was that? What happened to me? Was that food poisoning? Maybe it was. No idea. Thought I might run in the afternoon, to get that in. But we had scheduled a reading of (ironically enough) And Then You Die.

Better rest. Start fresh on Tuesday. After reading a play about training, it felt appropriate to do this right.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 26:49
Pace: 8:56
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 52°
Climate: bright & cool
Mood: good

Twice around the pond, without going to the woods, and back is exactly three miles to my front door. Less chance of encountering a coyote, but I was menaced by two mother geese.

Simple run, easy breezy. It took twenty minutes to get out of the house. Even a thirty minute run takes fifty minutes, not counting making these notes.

2009 Playlist
Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris
Surprise Hotel - Fool's Gold
A New Error - Moderat
Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) - A.R. Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls
Hi Friend! - Deadmau5 ft. MC Flipside
Fireflies - Owl City

Oof. That cheesy rip-off song. I'd delete it but it reminds me of my small kids. Seriously, that's what love does to a person, it makes them listen to shitty music.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 169.5 lbs. (-0.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.

I'm gonna keep on the run.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE

Training begins tomorrow, so does summer theater camp. Chris asked if we are going to do morning runs together, which is a good idea -- can I be prepared for it? Every day I think tomorrow is the day it lightens up, but it never is.

Distance: 5 miles
Duration: 44:49 miles
Pace: 8:57
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 67°
Climate: overcast & breezy
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes

Chris and I are making plans for training, comparing plans, discussing when we will meet up when we fly solo. Eighteen weeks.

1964 Playlist
Matchbox - The Beatles
Squeeze Her, Tease Her (But Love Her) - Jackie Wilson
 I Call Your Name - The Beatles
Out of Sight - James Brown
Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames
Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley
The Back Boys - The Beach Boys
Not Fade Away - The Rolling Stones
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Route 66 * - The Rolling Stones
See Line Woman - Nina Simone

This is the earliest playlist, as low as we go. Six more playlists to go. This year, we took our time and it was fine.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 169.5 lbs. (+1.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Please help me through the crowd.

Running around on my "day off." Putting things out for the neighborhood yard sale (which we apparently didn't tell anyone we were having, oops) getting the boy to band practice with the women head off to Parade the Circle. Also, a trip to the tore to get necessaries.

Then, a run! A quick run, very quick. Goodness, "Autobahn." Where would the future be without you?

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 27:46
Pace: 8:32
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 76°
Climate: sunny & hot!
Mood: good
Stretches: yes

1974 Playlist
Skin Tight - Ohio Players
Promised Land - Elvis Presley
Killer Queen - Queen
The Wall Street Shuffle - 10cc
Lilywhite Lilith* - Gensis
Autobahn * - Kraftwerk
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl DOuglas
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Bluedevils

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 168.5 lbs. (-1.5)
New Goal: 165 lbs.

Welcome to conditioning.

Say hello to the Anker SoundBuds Surge Lightweight Wireless Headphones, Bluetooth 4.1 Sports Earphones with Water-Resistant Nano Coating, Running Workout Headset with Magnetic Connector and Carry Pouch!

These are my new headphones. They suit. They came recommended from the wife and the girl, and now I have my own, and they are largely trouble-free.

Distance: 3.3 miles
Duration: 28:53
Pace: 8:45
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: RAIN!
Mood: GOOD!
Stretches: yes
Bandage: no

Took all night before the family was present to gather for a meal together -- our first, all together, in some time! Headed out after sundown, and about a mile and a half from home it started to rain.

Big rain! Lots of puddles! And I wasn't wearing my cap (looked for it, couldn't find it, should have looked harder) so my glasses were spotty with water and catching the glare of every street light.

Meanwhile, I was charging ... but also not charging, because this is Cleveland Heights and I had no idea what was going to be ahead of me; uneven pavement, skunk family. a large hole in the ground.

And yet. That was awesome.

1984 Playlist
Conditioning - Howard Jones
If You Were Here - Thompson Twins
Dissidents - Thomas Dolby
Walk Through the Fire - Peter Gabriel
High Energy - Evelyn Thomas
Love Is (What I Say) - INXS
Michael Caine - Madness
To France - Mike Oldfield

Maximum 1984!

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 170 lbs. (-2.0)
Goal: 170 lbs.

Yeah? Okay.

See, I've got heart like John Starks.

Tori Amos always reminds me of my ex-wife, and that's just fine.

Distance: 3.75 miles
Duration: 33:02
Pace: 8:48
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 70°
Climate: overcast & humid
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Bandage: no

TRUE STORY! If left untreated, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (UC) can lead to some life-threatening complications.

My brother has lived with UC his entire life ... and though it's only incidental to his story, when I was two I ate all of his medication and had to have my stomach pumped. Not actually relevant, but I wanted to tell the tale.

But! Crohn's disease also increases a patient's risk of developing colorectal cancer. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the third highest risk factor for colorectal cancer cases.

I'm taking the month of June to remind you of this TEAM CHALLENGE campaign, and reach my goal of $2,000, to find a cure for Crohn's and other IBDs? Will you kick in something today? Hit the TEAM CHALLENGE button at top right (or this link!) Many thanks!

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/582241/crohns-disease-facts

1994 Playlist
God - Tori Amos
Realm - Lestat
Funk Dat - Sagat
Khang Tone - Stereolab
Snail Shell - They Might Be Giants
Get It Together - Beastie Boys ft. Q-Tip
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Moon Sammy - Soul Coughing
Night In My Veins - The Pretenders

That's some Maximum 90s!


Beautiful night in the park, took the extra loop. Think I spotted my daughter and some friends existing as teen phenomena at the top of the hill overlooking the City.

No complaints in my legs or lungs. Doing all right, getting stronger, no need to walk at all. The girl runs around 8:07 at soccer practice these days but there we go. I've been passed.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 172 lbs. (+1.0)
Goal: 170 lbs.

Okay, fellah. Take it easy now.

Formulate your sentences.

"Should"?

No, I did not do The Forgotten. After opening night (which was more stressful than necessary) we got in after midnight and there was no way I was running eight miles at nine am the next morning.

So, Apple is closing iTunes. Huh. Didn't think of that. We first got the program in late 2002, it came with my wife's new laptop. We listened to the stations which were available at that time, and I loaded CDs onto that.

The idea of buying music online was nothing someone my age came to easily, but in 2004 Apple had a campaign with Pepsi, you would get a code under a bottle cap for a free download. Pepsi sold a lot of pop, and we got used to the idea of buying music online. I think my first download was actually something old, Marshall Crenshaw's Whenever You're On My Mind. It was a spring of nostalgia and of feeling big things.

No idea what happens to our purchases once the store closes. We can still use our players, I guess? Regardless, consumers are once again being told how to experience their music, and today it is streaming. Perhaps that means this will be the very last year I bother to do these annual playlists. I have the final eleven years already loaded onto my iPod, but even that will be obsolete soon. Really, it already is.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 28:25
Pace: 8:44
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 56°
Climate: overcast & cool
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Bandage: no

Big time backslide, it's been such a long week, bedtimes after midnight. Driving home I asked the wife to make me popcorn. "Make me popcorn!" I said. And then I scarfed a lot of popcorn.

Easy dog. Hitting the 170 mark is not something to be taken for granted. You know you are adding sugar, sugar and garbage. More vegetables. More fruit.

2004 Playlist
No Expectations - I Am the World Trade Center
Cobrastyle - Teddybears ft. Cobra
Ohh La La - The Ditty Bops
Air - Owls
Extraordinary Girl - Green Day
Mike Mills - AIR
Golden Touch - Razorlight
Shoot the Dog - George Michael
Tell Her Tonight - Franz Ferdinand

Yes, I bought two-thirds of those tracks on iTunes. Two were ripped from CDs, one a free download from another site.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 171 lbs. (+1.0)
Goal: 170 lbs.

Did not want to head out, so glad I did. Brisk, cool run. Ideal weather. The wife encouraged me to go, I am so grateful, thank you.

This cowboy's running from himself.

Pengo judges you.

Last day of school, regular school, with classes, for all of us. The boy's last day was yesterday, graduating eighth graders get the last day off. The girl had a test. The wife, commencement, and I visited actor-teachers at a high school.

Big fights broke out at our high school. Nice work, assholes, we're all over the news. Twitter is on fire with talk of gangs. It was a fist fight between five young women, that shit happens everywhere.

Distance: 3.7 miles
Duration: 32:36
Pace: 8:48
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 72°
Climate: sunny & hot!
Mood: could be better
Stretches: yes
Bandage: yes

Okay, so I'm running the park today and there's these guys marking out paths for a big, scheduled trail run tomorrow. It's called The Forgotten, to raise money for the Easy Cleveland Parks Association The guys say I can just show up, and maybe I will.

2014 Playlist
Batches & Cookies - Lizzo ft. Sophia Eris
Riptide - Vance Joy
BoJack's Theme - Patrick & Ralph Carney
Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating In the Future - Mike Doughty
Shut Up and Dance - Walk the Moon
#Selfie - The Chainsmokers
After the Disco - Broken Bells
Daffodils - Mark Ronson ft. Kevin Parker
My Type - Saint Motel
I'm Not the Only One - Sam Smith

Not a great year for me, but there was a lot of great music.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 170 lbs. (-2.5)
Goal: 170 lbs. Achievement Unlocked

King Lear opens at Beck Center tonight.

Run instead of walking.

Decadent nights. A late birthday party. The end-of-year affair for the residency program. I have consumed more calories in the past two nights than the past two weeks. I exaggerate. But not by much.

I spent five hours cleaning the house today. And it remains clean! God, I remember back in the day, when we would clean the house ... and then after the party there would be beer all over the floor, and cigarette smoke in the air and all of the fabric of the house. Today was so nice, most of the party took place outdoors.

Even the outdoors is nice. Things work out well. We are good.

Distance: 3.20 miles
Duration: 29:30
Pace: 9:12
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 71°
Climate: sunny & HUMID
Mood: weary
Stretches: yes
Bandage: yes

Farewell, Nike Flight headphones, we shall never meet again. This discontinued headphone got me through the NYC Marathon and so much training since, but seriously. I got these secondhand online and they worked fine, until today. Always the wires next to the input. The shortest lived phones I have ever owned. So, suck it.

Can anyone recommend decently priced Bluetooth phones? It's time.

1970 Playlist
Your Song - Elton John
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel

I was unaware of Your Song, until a girl wrote the lyrics to give to me. To me. It is my song.

Anyway, the phones went out and I tried running to the sound of my own breathing but it was a little difficult to take. Very humid today, very bright. Then I remembered I was holding an actual phone.

The Current
Tumult Around the World - Titus Andronicus
Ophelia - The Lumineers
Boozophilia - Low Cut Connie

That's right. Turn on the radio, and I get two Shakespeare references.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 172.5 lbs. (+0.5)
Goal: 170 lbs.

The phones are tight and the music's playing loud.

Home much housework can I get done before two pm? I was going to sleep until seven, but a cat started to vomit on my wife's desk around six-thirty so I had to spring into action and get him off of there before he launched. So I have been picking up a little while I wake. Simple breakfast, crossword, watched an episode of The Umbrella Academy while I folded laundry, only got halfway through.

This is what I do when the family i out of town. I do housework, and then I write about it.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 27:00
Pace: 9:00
Route: Neighborhood Loop

Can't figure out why my left toe is hurting. Does this have anything to do with the bend in the joints? I have (more or less) successfully kept from developing a bunion for thirteen years. Keeping my toe straight, running with intention. But this is a pain which make me feel like I have been putting too much stress inward, landing on the inside of my foot.

Or maybe it's just irritation from a callous building up from all the running. I will continue to monitor.

Temperature: 70°
Climate: rain!
Mood: all right
Stretches: a little
Bandage: forgot

Decided to stay close to home, as it was threatening to rain. And then it did - a little. A pleasant rain. Makes a difference when I am wearing a cap with a bill rather than being caught in a downpour in a bandanna. Hardly noticed it. Hardly brought the temperature down, I am a sweaty boy.

I think it's just the shoes, and the way I run in it. I don't really like these shoes, I should get a new pair.

1980 Playlist
The Wanderer - Donna Summer
Over You - Roxy Music
Ceremony (demo) - New Order
Go For It - Graham Gouldman
Skateaway - Dire Straits
Transmission - Joy Division
Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze

It's so cute listening to Bernard Sumner pretend like he can sing.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 172 lbs. (+1.0)
Goal: 170 lbs.

Gonna make you sweat.

First full run-through.

Last night, in rehearsal (where I spent a lot of time standing and in flat shoes) I thought I was feeling pain in my calf. I believe I should wear the bandage for more time.

Also, diet. Rehearsal keeps me from additional calories, like alcohol (drank last night, tho) and things Like popcorn, sweets, dinner.

Two months ago, I maxed out at 183 pounds. The fact that I lost that much weight in this short amount of time is a testament to how I gained the weight and what it consisted of -- shit in my system. Junk, trash, not food.

This time last year I weighed almost ten pounds less than I do today. And that is where I want to be. That part will be much, much harder.

The rewards, however, are evident. Less weary, less winded, and able to run further and feel better.

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 34:29
Pace: 8:37
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 72°
Climate: sunny, humid and PERFECT
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Bandage: yes!

Less weight, more heat, faster run. Hate the cold now, it's so bad for my muscles. Now I am warm, more pores are open, and I am flying. Good news!

1990 Playlist
I'm Your Baby Tonight - Whitney Houston
Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
It's All Right With Me - Tom Waits
Heal the Pain - George Michael
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C Music Factory
Suck - Pigface
Let's Talk About Sex - Salt-N-Pepa
Soul Free - George Michael
Take Me - Everything But the Girl

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 171 lbs. (-1.0)
Goal: 170 lbs.

So now. What is up with my right foot?

Run around, around, around, around, around.

Opening next week!

Three-day weekend. Going into tech, the family is headed to Athens tomorrow. I will be on my own, alone. I have already made mad-crazy plans to clean house, do yard work, and run every day.

Can't be too crazy. Tech is seven hours. Seven hours tomorrow, Seven hours Sunday. So I won't actually be home that much. But, oh! Those mornings.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 29:25
Pace: 9:03
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 65°
Climate: overcast and humid
Mood: angsty ... but good, you know?
Stretches: yes
Bandage: no!

Ran through the woods with my earphones out, as if I could outrun a coyote if I heard one. Brisk, hot, just as I have been looking forward to. And no bandage! I believe I am healed, though I will take extra care from this out.

2000 Playlist
Idioteque - Radiohead
Payback (The Final Mixdown) - Fatboy Slim
I Feel the Air (Of Another Planet) - Stereolab
Barock - Plastik  Stereolab
Sem Contenção - Bebel Gilberto
Uninvited - The Bostonians
Morning Bell - Radiohead

Someone recommend music for the year 2000. It's like I wasn't listening anything but the new Radiohead and Stereolab albums

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 172 lbs. (-0-)
Goal: 170 lbs.

The perfect road.

Spotted a young coyote in the park today, yapping at us ... which is cute and all, but where are the parents? I chose not to go through the woods. Curious, though. Am I to avoid the woods entirely now? I know they are more like to be spooked when humans come through, but not if they are protecting young, right? I will look into this. The last thing I want to do is suggest their removal from the park.

Distance: 3.15 miles
Duration: 28:38
Pace: 9:05
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 57°
Climate: overcast & breezy
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Bandage: yes

I believe my injury has healed, but I am not taking chances.

2010 Playlist
Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
Waka Wka (This Time For Africa) - Shakira ft. Freshlyground
Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells
Change of Time - Josh Ritter
Come With Me - ceo
Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
Derezzed - Daft Punk
Firework - Katy Perry

The first will be the last, we exit the '10s a decade of profound civil strife. Taking months to conclude this year's annual playlists have afforded me time to leisurely ruminate over what has passed. This playlist is a crazy amalgam of what I was listening to and what my my tweener daughter listened to. Much of it was the same, I have to admit.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 172 lbs. (-0.5)
Goal: 170 lbs.

When your head tells you to run.

Hot run! Summer has officially started. Now, if I could only stay one step ahead of the lawn.

Distance: 2.62 miles
Duration: 22:00
Pace: 8:23
Route: Newbury Loop
Temperature: 84°
Climate: sunny & HOT
Mood: good, you know?
Stretches: yes
Bandage: yes

2.62 miles for my brothers and sisters and others running the local MARATHON today!

1965 Playlist
The Night Before - The Beatles
Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart - The Supremes
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - The Beatles
The One On The Right Is On The Left - Johnny Cash
Five O'clock World - The Vogues
Shake and Fingerpop - Jr. Walker at the All Stars
You've Been In Love Too Long - Martha & the Vandellas
Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
I Spy - Earle Hagen
Route 66 (Live) * - The Rolling Stones

Goodness, what a summer playlist! Man, we didn't listen to any one that when I was a kid, except the Beatles. Just ignorant of America.

Scale is not functioning.

Gonna run till my feet are raw.

S.O.S.!

Sill wrapping the leg, even though I have not had an issue with it for about a week. It was a brisk solo run, and it felt good. Thinking about the script. We don't have the reading until June, which is good, because I don't feel pressured to begin revision. But I have ideas. Interactive ideas. More fluids and food.

Distance: 3.2 miles
Duration: 28:51
Pace: 9:01
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 54°
Climate: sunny & beautiful
Mood: good
Stretches: almost forgot!
Bandage: yes

1975 Playlist
Slip Kid - The Who
The Hustle  - Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony
Ease On Down the Road - Stephanie Mills & Company
The Time Warp - Richard O'Brien & Company
'39 - Queen
Slow Ride - Foghat
S.O.S. - ABBA
Black Country Woman - Led Zeppelin
Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire

Cooldown:
That's The Way I Like It - KC and the Sunshine Band

Black Country Woman, not good for running. Walked a bit during that one. Otherwise, disco! Yeah!

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 172.5 lbs. (-2.0)
Goal: 170 lbs.

Your mind won't wiggle and your knees will bend.

Today at noon!

Another night of reckless, decadent abandon. Sarah has returned to us following her West Coast adventure, and so the boy determined to create a fried feast of chicken wings and (for the vegetarians among us) buffalo cauliflower.

Whether due to the absinthe or the weather I woke with a slight pain in my head, but rose dutifully to consider and memorize lines. Lear opens in three weeks.

Distance: 4.65 miles
Duration:47:29
Pace: 10:12
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 46°
Climate: cool, after the rains
Mood: weary
Stretches: yes
Bandage: yes

Oof. Not as delightful as yesterday. A cool, overcast day, not unpleasant. But two out-of-shape guys, each of whom skipped breakfast, who did four miles yesterday, chugging a long, also walking.

My calf has gone two days, back to back, without pain or issue. Will continue to monitor and take care to wrap, and to stretch.

1985 Playlist
How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
Smooth Operator - Sade
Like Wow Wipeout - Hoodoo Gurus
Shadows In The Rain - Sting
King of Rock - Run-D.M.C.
Stay Up Late - Talking Heads
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 174.5 lbs. (-0-)
Goal: 170 lbs.