Requiem for a twat.

Throwing Muses
The Grog Shop, 4/9/2026

This year has been unnecessarily stressful. I mean, you could say that reaching back to forever. But in these recent years I had relaxed into a certain mode, one which involved seeing movies on my own, reading more, cooking, that kind of thing. I need to get back to that. Because otherwise, I'm just watching videos on YouTube.

Am I still middle age? Or am I leaning senior? I'm cool either way. Whatever. You know.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 27:13
Pace: 8:46

Spring vacillates. Perfect temps in the morning, it will rain this afternoon. So we run.

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 59°
Climate: gorgeous
Mood: all right

1968 Playlist

Requiem pour un con - Serge Gainsbourg

The Letter - Nirvana Sitar & String Group

I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin

Daydream Believer - The Monkees

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie C. Riley

Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers

Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf

Classical Gas - Mason Williams

Those Were the Days * - Mary Hopkins

Man. Those kids would listen to anything.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 160 lbs. (-1.0)

Sometimes, often these days, I think about all the running. And that's not good. Because I think, God. That's a lot of running. And then I think, why am I doing this? It brings my enthusiasm down. Then I pull myself together and get out there, and I feel great. I feel great now, having run.

Folks think running is hard. But it's really just getting out there that is.

Planks: TBA
Push-ups: TBA

Sit-Ups: TBA

I want to run. She’s pulling me apart.

I would ask, "What have I done to deserve this?" But I am well aware of all the things I have done, good and bad, and I have to assume this all balances out. The question is, can I learn from this experience. I think it means a lot that I have been able to accomplish as much as I have this year under this duress.

Jesus. Every gluten-free cookie, turned to ground glass.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 28:04
Pace: 9:03

Depression is deadening. And it is a challenge to keep moving forward. You know, there are times when I have said the wrong thing, done the wrong thing, and I just suffer through, aware of the damage I myself have caused, to others, and by extension to myself, hoping for that day that the ache has passed, and that life, for me, anyway, has resumed some kind of normalcy.

Then there are times like this, when I am just the unfortunate receptor of several unfortunate attacks, in quick succession, often unrelated, but so personal. And I don't know what to do about that. I have no one to talk to about it, no one to trust with this.

Like the man said, it's a drag isn't it?

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 54°
Climate: light fluffy clouds
Mood: trying

I've have spent years, my entire adult life, learning to be careful with my speech, with what I say. Even more recently, what not to put into an email. God, I'm angry. Calm, and sad, and very angry. And no one knows. No one but you.

1989 Playlist

Gucci Again - Schoolly D

She's a Mystery To Me - Roy Orbison

Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry

Chewing Gum - Elvis Costello

Steppin' to the A.M. - 3rd Bass

Big House - Michael Penn

She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

The Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 165 lbs. (+4.0)

I can't explain this.

Planks: TBA
Push-ups: TBA

Sit-Ups: TBA

These are the days. Sunrise over the park, perfectly cool -- but not too cool. Comfortable, free and easy. I need more of this.

See you Saturday.

I feel anxious when I'm high.

Temperatures rise. Good news yesterday, very good news. It's about the summer. Can't share, not yet. But soon.

It's happening, Reg! Something's actually happening, Reg!

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 27:32
Pace: 8:53

Yesterday was Shakespeare's birthday (by tradition) and I was surprised to learn that I have only performed in eight full productions of his works, which is not too bad. But you'd think it were more.

Actually, that seems like a lot. I don't know. I've also directed seven. Two overlap.  

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 58°
Climate: sunny & gorgeous
Mood: okay
Stretches: yes
Water: not really

Weight: 160 lbs.

So, we've been watching sport. The Cavs are in the playoffs, and we are watching. Then there's all the baseball. It was the best of times, it was the blurst of time.

2020 Playlist

Jerk - Olive Tree

Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan

Compression - Monica LaPlante

Yucky Blucky Fruitcake - Doechii

Caution - The Killers

Dynamite - BTS

Intrasport - King Gizzard & Th Lizard Wizard

Your Love (Déjà Vu) - Glass Animals

I want to run.

You know, there's that time in the spring when you just really, really want decent weather for running. Sometimes -- get this -- sometimes it snows in APRIL.

Sometimes I feel so bad.

Anyway, things progress. Art happens. The stock market is down, but it goes back up again, you know? Like, the magnolia blossoms in my back yard that just started blossoming and then were caught in a frost and now they're brown and not as pretty.

What was I Talking about? Oh, yeah. Spring. Might be nice. Glad I can still run indoors. Fuck.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 25:22

And now, the fun bunch. An early morning quartet of walkers who take all four lanes.

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

Weight: 160 lbs.

1991 Playlist

Who? Where? Why? (Crisis 12" Mix) - Jesus Jones

Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You) - Pet Shop Boys

Rush - Big Audio Dynamite II 

Losing My Religion - R.E.M.

Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & the Fun Bunch

Pain Lies On the Riverside - Live

Heartbeats sounding.

That springtime conundrum. Do I run in the morning, when it is best for me, or wait until it is sixty degrees, some time in the afternoon? Should I run this morning, and then again when it is sixty degrees but before it drops back down to twenty degrees on Thursday?

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 26:04
Route: rec center
Mood: angsty
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

So, anyway. The Rec Center. I have a lot of anxiety today ... is it because I didn't take my meds last night? Is there a possible correlation?

2008 Playlist

Golden Age - TV on the Radio

Nine In the Afternoon - Lincoln! In the Bardo

Full Moon - Black Ghosts

Use Somebody - Kings of Leon

Detroit - Black Gold

Echoes Round the Sun - Paul Weller

So What - Pink

Blind - Hercules & Love Affair

Take a breath and go for yours.

Weather! Am I right? So, it was beautiful yesterday morning, then the clouds rolled in just after lunch. Rain, rainy, rainy March day. The way it should be! And yet. Love a beautiful spring day.

Distance: 2 miles
Duration: 18:53
Pace: 9:27

No toxicants for five days. Resting better than usual. No melatonin no Benadryl. Just lying down and crashing to sleep.

1990 Playlist

Candy - Iggy Pop ft. Kate Pierson  

Don't Fence Me In - David Byrne

It's All Right With Me - Tom Waits

Luck of Lucien - A Tribe Called Quest

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C Music Factory

Route: Burlington Loop (counterclockwise)
Temperature: 41°
Climate: foggy & misty
Pavement: damp
Mood: good

BREAKTHROUGH! Only planning to go one mile, cold and rainy. But I hit the pavement and notice I could breathe. Like, really breathe, not winded at all. I am succeeding.

My problem is, I haven't gotten a gym membership. I should have (there's that word again) continued my regimen through the winter. But it's about time, isn't it? Ah, well. Glad I am getting back to the condition I prefer.

Stretches: yes

Water: yes

Breakfast: fresh fruit, Greek yogurt, nuts, dried fruit, granola

Coffee Brea: latte w/nonfat milk
Lunch: sunbutter & jelly sandwich, carrots & celery, Cherry Coke Zero, chocolate cake
Dinner: fish & chips w/tartar sauce and ketchup, slaw

Cocktail Hour: beach plum fizzy water

Passed on candy in the office. But accepted the birthday cake. Let us say yes to celebratory dessert.

Baseline: 185 lbs.
Weight: 185 lbs. (+1.0) 

Goal: 180 lbs.

Yeah, that baked potato serving was fucking mammoth.

Core Strength: 20 sit-ups

Your feet may take you far from me.

Cool morning, took a jacket, wish I hadn't. It's chilly at first! But then the sun rises above the trees. Didn't wear sunglasses, either. Morning runs, you gotta plan, man.

Soon enough it won't make a difference. It will all be hot and bright.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:27
Pace: 9:49
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 43°
Climate: sunny & cool
Mood: good

Stretches: yes
Weight: 188 lbs. (-0-)

Intake

Breakfast: cold cereal w/banana, coffee (2x) 

Lunch: Leftover green pasta, apple

Treat: candy bar

Snack: cheese & crackers

Dinner: TBA

Also; fizzy water (1x)

Man. Killer playlist. Seriously, that's, like, the greatest hits for the entire decade.

2015 Playlist

The Shade - Metric

King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar

Leave a Trace - CHVRCHES

No Cities To Love - Sleater-Kinney

Wherever Is Your Heart - Brandi Carlile

Huarache Lights - Hot Chip

Wait For It - Leslie Odom Jr. & the company of "Hamilton"

Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd

Fight Song - Rachel Platten

Wait. What song is this?

Easy places to get away to.

Spring continues! Last night I was awake because my knee hurt. That was a drag, my knee hurting. It was a surprise. And someone has made off with my knee braces. Anyway, I did get back to sleep.

Speaking of sleep, the boy was concerned about the almost daily dose of melatonin I had been consuming through the fall and winter, and so I backed off. I haven't had a sleep aid in a week.

Well. Not if you cound last night's diphenhydramine (Benadryl) which I took because Monday night my face just started draining, and yesterday I was sneezing. It's a blooming festival of life out there! And I have allergies.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:59
Pace: 9:40
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 46°
Climate: sunny & nice
Mood: good
Weight: scale is broken (not kidding)

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x)

Lunch: spaghetti & meatless sauce

Treat: latte, Pop Tarts

Happy Hour: Guinness (2x)

Snack: cheese & bread

Dinner: broccoli quiche

Dessert: Oreos (4x), milk

Also: fizzy water (1x)

More water. Also, I was on a run of drive through meals and snacks, and that will stop now, for the duration. Only homecoocked meals, leftovers, snacks, etc.

1996 Playlist

F.N.T. - Semisonic

Soundtrack To Mary - Soul Coughing

Coconut - Fred Schneider

The Idiot Kings - Soul Coughing

Naked Eye - Luscious Jackson

Where It's At - Beck Hansen

How Bizarre - OMC

Whoever You Are - Geggy Tah

Semisonic deserved more hits.

Got your chin held high and you feel just fine.

Rehearsals make running impossible. Caught a short one this morning, I need to get the eighteen week training schedule on the calendar.

Ran the whole thing, no pain -- until just before I stopped. Pushed it out to 3.25. But so far things are going well, I need to rest and recuperate, in equal amounts

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 28:55
Pace: 8:54
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 65°
Climate: bright and shiny
Mood: determined
Stretches: yes
Wrapped: yes

Beautiful day in the park. It's gosling season! Last night I dreamed I was attacked by a dog. Love goslings, hate dogs.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 173.5 lbs. (-4.0)
Goal: 175 lbs. Achievement Unlocked

I have been eating less. I have been eating when I am hungry, and that's it. You know, that's not it. I had a piece of carrot cake yesterday. I slim slice of Corbo's carrot cake (my favorite cake) and it was sweet and creamy and delicious and just enough and not too much.

2005 Playlist
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Don't Look Back - Telepopmusik
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! at the Disco
I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
Winners - 7 Seconds of Love
Modern Times - The Tramp & J-Five
Dirty Harry - Gorillaz
The Hands That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge

Okay. Now I'm feeling it.

Run fast for your father.

Blew off a ten-mile yesterday, chose instead to relax in bed. That's a euphemism, but not the one that you're thinking of.

Getting that scrawny old man look back in my face.

2009 Playlist
Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris & Chrome
Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
One Day - The Juan MacLean
Good Life - OneRepublic
Not Fair - Lily Allen
Dog Days Are Over * - Florence + The Machine
Fascination - La Roux

This time last year, I was through with running. My hip hurt too much, and I had started physical therapy. This did not work out as I had hoped, so I abandoned the sessions.

They cost too much and my therapist had stopped checking in on me, leaving his assistant to just watch me while I went through the exercises. This went on for weeks, so I just stopped going.

What I found is that I can live with the pain, if I do the exercises my self -- and run. I must run. Without running, I get depressed. I go a little crazy.

I missed the spring last year. It is my intention not to let that happen again.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Pace: 8:12
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 55°
Climate: bright and cool
Mood: good. right? good.

Stretches: yes

Baseline: 178 lbs.
Today: 166.5 lbs. (+2.5)
Goal: 160 lbs.

Ok. Is it the scale ..?

The sun is up. The sky is blue.

1968 Playlist - or - "The Beatles"
Back In The U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Martha My Dear
Savoy Truffle
Revolution 1
Mother Nature's Son
Glass Onion
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Blackbird
I'm So Tired
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I Will
Julia
Helter Skelter *
Good Night

Ultimate Classic Rock has a feature called the 45-Minute Album Police. It is not a unique opinion that there is not a single double album in the history of popular music that needs to be that long, that could not have been improved upon through some common sense editing.

Blood, Sugar,Sex, Magik comes to mind. Sign O' The Times. Even George Harrison himself knew he was being a dick when he released his first solo record as a three-album set and named it All Things Must Pass.

The White Album (which any prig will tell you is really titled simply, The Beatles) is certainly too long, a disjointed mess which includes numerous beautiful tracks lumped in with novelty songs, Paul's old-timey music hall bullshit and "Revolution 9" which no one has ever listened to in the presence of another human being.

I chose the edit by Nick DeRiso, because I liked it well enough, and because it was the first list on the page.

I chose to listen to this album for this run because in July I turn fifty, and a few months later, so will the The White Album.

Distance: 5.5 miles
Duration: 46:19
Pace: 8:25
Route: Forest Hill/Cain Park Loop
Temperature: 48°
Climate: just gorgeous
Pavement: dry
Mood: apprehensive, but forward-looking

What I most remember about this album is that I first listened to it when I was nine or ten, when I was first introduced to the Paul is Dead legend. I have no doubt that John put in one or two, but at the time, I was hearing clues everywhere, and this record -- according to legend -- is full of them.

As a result, it wasn't until I was an adult that I could listen to "Revolution 9" at all. Even today, whatever John and Yoko were intending it to sound like, it plays for me like a long, creepy seance.

Stretches: yes

Just a perfect day for a run. Welcome, spring. Clear, blue sky, light breeze, smiling faces in the park, on the street. And I run, I am running. No, it's not perfect. I am not without pain. But still, I run. The running is happening.

Baseline: 178 lbs.
Today: 164 lbs. (-0.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Law man has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home.

The first day of spring, and I am on my own. The children are here, of course. But the wife, her sister and mother are flying to Paris. They should be there by now, except the transportation gods thought they needed a little more time in Airportland, to be guided through different cities, and to get to know each other better over warmed-over mall food before being distracted by the City of Lights.

She left yesterday morning before lunch. They should get there by this evening.

March 20th is, of course, the vernal equinox. It is also Calvin's Day. But the children will go to school, I will go to work. Visiting the zoo, the aquarium, his grave, these things will have to wait until we are re-united. And that is all right. Waiting is also a thing I can do.

1979 Playlist
Renegade - Styx
Let's Go - The Cars
Disorder - Joy Division
Got the Time - Joe Jackson
Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward

Distance: 2.35 miles
Route: Newbury Loop
Temperature: 28°
Climate: cold & cloudy
Pavement: dry
Mood: hungry

Stretches: yes!

Baseline: 178 lbs.
Today: 169.5 lbs. (+2.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Needed to get a prop - a yearbook - across town last night. There will be staged performances of my new play The Way I Danced With You at Blank Canvas Theatre this weekend. I encouraged the boy to come with me by promising dinner at Happy Dog. Not a light supper, but highly satisfying.

I'm in need of some restraint.

Last night I was up until one am with a sick child and this morning my hip hurts from the first run I had taken in almost two weeks.

But its sixty degrees out, and it's Sunday. That is when the running happens.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Avg. Pace: 8:39
Duration: 28:08
Route: Forest Hill Loop

A lazy Sunday morning, but not lazy enough. My mind is in such a tumult I could not locate my toe spacers and I headed out with my last running shoes. I should have turned around, I had a kink in one ankle, then the other, and in my right knee again, briefly. Took it a little easier. That's hard for me to do.

I am overdue for new shoes.

Temperature: 63°
Climate: coll & humid
Mood: anxious

Baseline: 174 lbs.
Today: 165 lbs. (-3.0) Uh, okay?
Goal: 165 lbs.
Ideal: 160 lbs.

1968 Playlist
Grazing In the Grass - Hugh Masekela
Trouble/Guitar Man (live) - Elvis Presley
Stray Cat Blues - The Rolling Stones
Can I Change My Mind - Tyrone David
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

All we've got left is a beat in the night.

Today in silly clickbait:

6 Reasons Your Doctor Needs to Know You’re a Runner
by Teal Burrell, Runner's World 1/23/2017

Every time I meet a new doctor, the moment they use a stethoscope they ask, "You run?"

I don't think I want to meet the doctor who can't tell a runner right off the bat.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Pavement: wet
Temperature: 52°
Climate: light rain
Mood: okay

Beautiful "spring" day. The wife actually has the day off, as her school's power is out after last night's storms. But I am headed to three different schools today, in three different communities, for meetings, teaching and parent responsibilities.

All the water fowl, in the lagoon. Just gorgeous.

Baseline: 174 lbs.
Today: 165.5 lbs. (+1.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.
Ideal: 160 lbs.

Oh, yes. "Fat Tuesday." The perfect excuse to have hot pastrami at lunch and a cheeseburger and onions rings for dinner. Only I'm not Catholic so I'll be eating the same things today.

2003 Playlist
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight * - The Postal Service
In Between Days * - Ben Folds
Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie
Gay Bar * - Electric Six
Burning Down the House - Tom Jones & The Cardigans
Yeah - Usher ft. Lil' Jon & Ludacris
Look for Water - David Bowie
It's My Life - Liquid People vs. Talk Talk

Two steps on the water.

Action in stasis. It has been some time since I have written something. This was a doubt that I was living with two years ago, just before I started massive writing. Fallow periods, but they aren't fruitless. There are plays to be rehearsed, others to be edited, designs to be pursued, an entire summer of activity and events that require my attention and concentration. It could even be, uh, "fun."

There's also the big race which takes place one month from today. Chris and I are partners in this, his long runs appear almost daily on my MMR feed so I know he's on top of it, and so am I, if not so aggressively. We are discussing just keeping with the eight minute group. My average pace in the Twin Cities was 8:30, can we do this for a half? I think we might.

Distance: 4 miles
Avg Pace: 7:02
Duration:28:27
Route: Cain Park Loo

Temperature: 54°
Climate: bright and sunny
Weight: 163.5 lbs. (+1.5)
Mood: good

165 - 169 BPM Playlist
Foundations - Kate Nash
She's Long Gone - The Black Keys
Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
All Wrong - Kaada
... And Then You Die - The Receiver
Young Americans - David Bowie
About You Now - Sugababes
The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul - XTC

How far, how fast? False start at 170 - 174 BPM, I couldn't make that today. What I did was brisk enough! Hope to try that again tomorrow.

God, I love Spring.

Long, black train.

First day of Spring. Earliest I have gotten up this year intentionally to take a run. Would have just gone back to sleep but there are plans ahead. Plans to visit the aquarium, the zoo, visit Riverside. Later we will have cake.

Plans for the week, too. The wife is taking a writing holiday and we will miss her. Next week the kids will visit Athens for the week. So many plans. So much to do. So much life moving forward.

The other day I had occasion to read over I Hate This. Strange, I last performed this piece five years ago. I watched it performed last fall, Reading it out loud myself, there were things that struck me as odd. Dated. And by dated, I mean they didn't make sense coming out of my mouth in 2016.

Fifteen years. The more things change, the more they will never be the same again.

Distance: 6 miles
Avg Pace: 7:50
Duration: 47:01
Route: Cain Park-Noble Loop
Week Two Total: 18 miles
Training to Date: 35 miles

My back has been acting up. What a pain.

Temperature: 30°
Climate: light snow
Weight: 162.5 lbs.
Mood: sleepy

2001 Playlist
August Day Song (King Britt Mix) - Bebel Gilberto
Smoke - Cornelius
Hella Good - No Doubt
Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya & Pink
Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
Mystery Train - Michael J. Sheehy
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
This Charming Man - Stars
Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors - Radiohead
Start the Commotion - Wiseguys
Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
Digital Love - Daft Punk

From this world to the next, and from the next back to this.

It has been a long week. My father's ashes were interred yesterday morning. That was odd. The small, black box which held his remains was sitting on a pedestal and they funeral director asked Mom if she would like to see them buried, and she said yes. This was something she hadn't been asked during her father's funeral, twenty-seven years ago.

They backed up a small maintenance vehicle, placed the box in the hole and covered it with earth and sod. I believe we were all very impressed.

We held his memorial at Lakewood Presbyterian Church. Family had come in from out east, from England. Standing in the receiving line, the oddest attendance, not only from his life but from mine. I was impressed and touched by those who arrived for him and also for the rest of us, many I hadn't seen in years or decades.

There followed an afternoon and evening of eating and drinking, telling stories, looking at photo albums. Talking, always talking.

Today my brothers are heading home. A week-long mourning period comes to an end. I have to get back to work.

Distance: 3.6 miles
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 45°
Climate: cool and bright
Pavement: dry
Weight: 162 lbs.
Mood: yes.

Perfect day. Like an early spring day. We have a visitor in the pond, it is a swan.

Eleven runs in February. Not a record, but it is remarkable. Thank you for your time.

1993 Playlist
Stay (Faraway, So Close)  - U2
Sober - Tool
Lonely Planet - The The
Sodium Light Baby - The The
Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) - Sting
Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature
Lies - Cyndi Lauper

Your time is running out.

My nemesis.

What a full week I have ahead of me. Little time to dawdle, time to hit the road early or not at all.

Attended a few social gatherings this weekend, mostly centering around food.  It is challenging to control your intake in situations like that, but not impossible. I was more successful when I put myself in a room away from the food.

But that's where they keep the booze.

Temperature: 60°
Distance: 3.38 miles
Avg Pace: 8.07
Climate: cool and humid

Outstanding run. Wish every morning could be like this. No traffic, cool and breezy. Funny how soon the humidity kicks in. Actually, that's not funny at all, that's just Cleveland.

Not enough time. Want to get to work on the backyard. It will be ninety degrees at dawn before we know it. The wife says she thought this winter would never end. Not metaphorically, during the coldest days she just could not imagine the spring.

Here you go, sweetheart. Welcome home.

Baseline: 178.5 lbs.
Today: 163.5 lbs. (-2.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Uhm ... okay. That's weird. I had mac and cheese with bacon for lunch, and an enormous Caesar salad with grilled chicken for dinner. The wife thinks it might be all the running.

2012 Playlist
Take a Walk - Passion Pit
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
Madness - Muse
Let's Go - Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo
Sweet Nothing - Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch
Starships - Nicki Minaj
It's Time - Imagine Dragons

Talk about moving.

Ran past a fat-breasted robin on Euclid Heights Blvd. with a worm dangling from its beak. Reals.

SOON ...

Temperature: 21°
Climate: Snow. Sure. Whatever.
Distance: 3.25 miles

Cold day, but bright. Some days it's just about the running, or the music. Today it was all thinking, turning over words I have been reading, or writing. People I plan to engage in conversation, and what I will ask them with the precious time allowed.

Longing for better weather, and longer runs. I want to reach the India pavilion on MLK, to commune with the Mahātmā. Today we slept in late, which was odd and refreshing. No writing this morning, just rest. And that is a good thing, too. But with warmer weather I will be inspired to earlier runs, and I look forward to those.

Time expands, thoughts churn and define themselves. Two weeks ago I thought I had no story. Now I have one. Soon I will have two, and then three. And then the great work will begin.

1980 Playlist
Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
Take This Town - XTC
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
Funkytown (12" Version) - Lipps Inc.
Red Light - Linda Clifford
Games People Play - The Alan Parsons Project

Afternoon update:

Girl On The Run
Temperature: 23°
Running: 2.2 miles
Walking: 1 mile

When I got back from my run, I remembered I had promised the girl a run today. We headed out to the track, and I was impressed that she could run one mile without stopping, and then after a short water break, a second. We walked a mile, I gave tips, she filled me in on her partners in GOTR, and then a final lap to make a complete 3.2 miles.

The GOTR 5K is on May 18th, which is also the boy's ninth birthday.  She hopes to make the entire 3.1 mile course without stopping, and I assured her that at this rate that will not be a problem.