Graduate Hotel Cincinnati Fitness Room

Distance: 2 miles

Route: Graduate Hotel Cincinnati Fitness Room
Mood: yes

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Planks: TBA
Push-ups: TBA

Sit-Ups: TBA

Have a nice life.

We have been aching lately. Check the exercise roster, that may have something to do with it. Hips, ankles, feet, knees. All a bit sore. Unpleasant.

Distance: 4.15 miles

Duration: 37:25
Pace: 9:01

But anyway, I did bring my kit to Cincinnati. I have a day all to myself, and that should include exercise. The forecast is wonderful and I would have seriously regretted not taking the opportunity for a run.

How were we last year? Not bad.

Route: Gaslight Loop (2x)
Temperature: 71°
Climate: dark clouds w/thunder in the distance
Mood: good?

1997 Playlist

Drinking In L.A. - Bran Van 3000

Candyman - Cornershop

Selfless, Cold & Composed - Ben Folds Five

Everything * - Mary J. Blige

Dark & Long - Underworld

MMMBop - Hanson

The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Atom Bomb (Atomix 1) - Fluke

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Decent rest. Good breakfast, Maria always makes something nice. Now, what am I going to do with the rest of the day? The last time I was in this room, I was writing and doing research for the play that goes up later this month. Today, I may just read.

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

Not running out while my heart's unsteady.

Mini-vacation is Cincinnati. The boy has not one but two gigs this week. Feels like an exercise in enforced relaxation, for which we are immensely fortunate. A couple of nights at the Gaslight Bed & Breakfast, our home away from home, to write, watch TV, listen to jazz and flop around. And run.

Distance: 2 miles

Duration: 18:00
Pace: 9:00

The Best of Everything But the Girl (2025)

Before Today

No Difference

Driving

Each and Every One

Rollercoaster

I love each and every one of these tracks. But are they the best? Which is to say, is there nothing above? I have to quibble. Three tracks from Walking Wounded and one track from Temperamental -- and it's not "Five Fathoms"?

Nothing from Love Not Money? It's okay there isn't anything from Worldwide.

They should have asked me to curate. And perhaps I still may. A playlist called The Very Best of Everything But the Girl.

Route: Gaslight Loop
Temperature: 50°
Climate: sunny & beautiful
Mood: determined

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Planks: TBA
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: TBA

Actual lyric: "Not running out for a while, my heart's unsteady."

Do you really want to live forever?

War is peace, am I right?

We are in Cincinnati, not to see a young man but to celebrate an old man. Staying in that AirBnB we used to use when our kid first started attending Uni, the one I called a "bougie hipster flop" but it's lost some of it's shine. First of all, there's no snacks.

My dreams were vivid and I even remember some though they did not have to do with nuclear annihilation. More to do with high-achieving colleagues and a very unwell pet fish. 

Anyway, I have to run. We need to keep in shape for what's coming.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 27:49
Pace: 9:16

Route: Over the Rhine
Temperature: 73°
Climate: sunrise & muggy
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Post Cold War Politics Playlist

Dissidents - Thomas Dolby

Party at Ground Zero - Fishbone

I Melt With You - Modern English

Forever Young - Alphaville

Wind of Change - Scorpions

Planet Earth (Night Version) - Duran Duran

They come a running just to get a look.

Our house smells like cat. The whole house, stinky cat. This is a shame, as Tiger is actually so much healthier than he was two months ago.

Distance: 2.1 miles

Duration: 19:21
Pace: 9:12

We're in Cincinnati for the night, to see the boy perform at Caffè Vivace. Brought my kit to do the block, like I did last fall.

Beautiful day. Walk in the park. Leisurely lunch. Mini-vacation (except for all the driving).

Route: Gaslight Loop
Temperature: 68°
Climate: between downpours
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

1976 Playlist

Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck

I'd Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley

Money, Money, Money - ABBA

Crazy On You - Heart

Somebody To Love - Queen

Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra

"I'm not talkin' 'bout m'lady."

Someday in the city we won't have to run.

Soulmates.

A day in Cincinnati. The young man has a recital tonight at the jazz club Caffè Vivace, and we arrived the night before so we could relax today, not drive. Just write and read ... and run!

Distance: 2.1 miles

Duration: 19:16
Pace: 9:11

Warriors - Lin-Manuel Miranda & Eisa Davis (2024)
Somewhere In the City *

Reunion Square

Same Train Home *

Finale

We complete the album. I need to watch the movie, I am surprised that I never have. I know the references, the image of David Patrick Kelly clinking the beer bottles together taunting, "Warriors ... come out and play-ay ..." and also the sample which is the title of the Pop Will Eat Itself song Can U Dig It?

But it's the Odyssey, I get it. They're just trying to get home. And don't we all just want to get home?

Route: Clifton Neighborhood Loop
Temperature: 53°
Climate: sunny & gorgeous
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: TBD

I’ve placed faith in geography.

Hot mane.

Awake at 2:30 AM in an Airbnb in Over the Rhine, fretting existential questions, deciding to sit up for an hour to write out my thoughts.

Getting our money’s worth out of this bougie hipster flop.

Distance: 2.5 miles

Duration: 22:39
Pace: 9:03

We are in Cincy to see the boy over  UC’s “family weekend.” So far we’ve had some good together time, got to existence a new neighborhood, even saw a play on campus. Shame about the football game though we couldn’t even get tickets, anyway.

Route: Over the Rhine

Temperature: 48°
Climate: partly cloudy & cool

Mood: anxious

  

This is in an Urban Outfitters

Ah, Sunday morning in Gentrification Land, where last night’s cold IPA is this morning’s warm piss.

“Watch out for uneven pavement,” she said, and it was a warning well-heeded. For the most part, though, and easy course, and safe, and one I would be happy to elaborate upon.

Stretches: yes

Water: yes

What’s That Lyric?

Gold Rush - Death Cab for Cutie