Keep in pace with the p*dophiles.

My ankle has been a bit wonky this week. Not when running, just the rest of the day. Though, I gotta say, running every other day? Works for me.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 25:25

Every day I prepare the same breakfast, a bowl of fresh fruit (mostly berries) with granola and (plain, nonfat) yogurt. This fruit place opened a year or two ago in my office and every time I go there I can hear my mother's voice saying, "You know, you could just get fruit from the grocery store."

I used to think, what's the point, it's (the fruit) just going to go bad in the fridge before I eat all of it. But not if you have it every day. 

And also, it's like Seth Brundle, doing the Einstein thing, where he's got, like seven of the exact same outfit so he doesn't waste any time thinking about what to wear. Morning time I am not in the headspace to decide what to eat. And it's fresh and tasty and never disappoints.

Yesterday, I mixed in a tablespoon of sunbutter. Can you imagine?

Route: rec center
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

2010 Playlist

Black Sheep (Brie Larson Vocal) - Metric

Burn It Down - Sims

Mr. Saxobeat - Alexandra Stan

Too Dramatic - Ra Ra Riot

Drunk Girls - LCD Soundsystem

Psychic City (Classixx Remix) - Yacht

Run - Vampire Weekend

Like a G6 - Far East Movement

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

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

Towpath Four Mile

#IBelieveSurvivors

Caught a Twitter thread the other day. A woman asked, "what would you do if all men had a 9:00 pm curfew." The responses were breathless and ebullient, and also sad, because it's a fantasy.

Many said they would run. Run after dark, without fear, without looking over their shoulder. Through the woods, on the streets. In a sports bra.

Distance: 4 miles
Pace: 9:14
Route: Towpath Trail
Temperature: 55°
Climate: cool
Mood: good

Allie wanted to get eight in, Chris invited me to join them, so we could do a (slower) four mile; three miles out, one mile back and then walk for two.

The temperature was perfect, we made good time. Breakfast at Original L.A. Pete's.

Exercises: not yet

You seem to me like a man on the verge of running.

Actual size.

Early morning, the wife and I rose to catch the sunrise. After running, exercising (I failed to do so yesterday) and showering, I made bacon and pancakes for everyone.

Well, the adults, anyway. The children, if you can still call them children, slept late.

Yesterday I received some unpleasant professional news; I won't go into it, but it was disheartening to say the least. Not earth-shattering, just disappointing. I do not understand some people.

Distance: 2 miles
Pace: 9:16
Route: Topsail Beach
Temperature: 75°
Climate: warm & sunny
Mood: not good

Easy run today, in shoes. The tide was high and I am holding on. Sad to think tomorrow may be the last run here of the season. Are we almost through with Topsail for the year? Is the summer progressing so fast?

Exercises: yes, fuck yes.

What's That Lyric?
99.9° - Suzanne Vega

A backless dress and some beat up sneaks.

Pizza In A  Bowl™

Four runs in four days? Is that a good idea? After all, I didn't even have the opportunity to stretch yesterday. Still cold. That may change soon. May. Meantime, I think I am desperate to move. The last few weeks have left me feeling uneasy.

2014 Playlist
BoJack's Theme  - Patrick Carney
Cheap Sunglasses - RAC ft. Matthew Koma
Birth In Reverse - St. Vincent
Nothing But Trouble - Phantogram
Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating In The Future - Mike Doughty
After the Disco - Broken Bells
Can't Break Me Down - Billy Idol
Shut Up And Dance - WALK THE MOON

I think I hated 2014. I can't remember why.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Pace: 8:25
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 29•
Climate: cold, cloudy
Pavement: dry
Mood: perked up real good!

What happens if I don't eat before a morning run? Does it matter? Is this about weighing in? Maybe it is.

Stretches: yes!

By mile two I was flying! What happened? I felt good, really good! The music was so inspiring -- maybe I don't hate 2014 after all!

Baseline: 178 lbs.
Today: 167.5 lbs. (+1.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Jesus. I will never be 165 pounds again.

These are my intentions.

Blank Canvas Theatre

Here's a thing. My kids eat breakfast before they go to school. That means around 7:00 AM. If I eat with them, I am hungry by nine. If I wait to eat breakfast until nine, then I can make it to lunch.

1999 Playlist
Push Downstairs - Underworld
I Want You To Want Me - Letters to Cleo
Blame - Everything But the Girl
Porcelain - Moby
The Generator - Lilys
Push Upstairs - Underworld
Compression - Everything But the Girl

First performance of The Way I Danced With You at Blank Canvas last night. Nice crowd for a Thursday, I mean a really nice crowd. It was good to see so many friends there. Friends and strangers. It also felt good to hear people reacting to the work, they are a lovely duo and the director has done remarkable work with them.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Pace: 8:39
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 28°
Climate: bright & cold
Pavement: dry
Mood: good

It has been a difficult wee, schedules a little crazy. The wife is in France (yes!) with her mother and her sister. I feel ad to be leaving the kids home alone most nights to go to rehearsal, but they're fine, really. And friends are helping with transportation. Still, it's a little dizzying and it makes my heart ache. I am fortunate it is just for a few nights. That's the only way to put it, fortunate.

Stretches: yes

Baseline: 178 lbs.
Today: 168.5 lbs. (-1.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

I try to remember to take my phone with me for every run now, in case I have a heart attack.This isn't a joke.

I'll go crawling back to the city I love.

Hey, y'all. Good mornin'.

Woo. Scored some terrific chafing these past two runs (sorry if that is too much information, this is a runner's blog) but when you get a morning in the fifties in March, you take it. Glide it is.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Avg. Pace: 8:05
Duration: 26:18
Route: Forest Hill Loop

Also, intestinal distress. Man, I have all the complaints this morning. What did we eat last night? Vegetarian tacos, spaghetti squash tacos. Hmn. No one else seemed affected. And this morning I celebrated #NationalCerealDay with, well, what I usually eat, granola and yogurt. No idea. You're losing it, old man.

Pavement: wet
Temperature: 54°
Climate: refreshing, light rain
Mood: progressive

Not a goose.

Great springtime-like run. Geese out in force. I am glad to say I have never been attacked by a goose, at least not yet. The lagoon is swollen from last night's rain, but the path was still clear.

The neighborhood association does a wonderful job keeping the park clear and beautiful, but some of the ancient stone and brickwork needs repair. Like the man says, such a crumbling beauty. Aaah, there's nothin' about her municipal funds wouldn't fix.

Baseline: 174 lbs.
Today: 163.5 lbs. (+1.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.
Ideal: 160 lbs.

2008 Playlist
In the Heights - Lin-Manuel Miranda & Company
I Caught Myself - Paramore
Echoes Round the Sun - Paul Weller
Freeway - Aimee Mann
American Boy (Soulseekerz Club Remix) - Estelle
Coney Island - Good Old War

On this morning, last year, we were probably listening to Hamilton.

Getting Hamilton tickets was much easier and cheaper the second time.

I want to run but I can't hide.

Now it is cool and rainy. My sinuses are very unhappy and I have gotten up every morning with a slight headache.

I remember in the early-late 1990s, after the wife (who was then the girlfriend) had moved in and I would often wake up feeling headachy and stuffed up and in pain and just not in the mood to spend an entire day in a basement on Coventry and I wondered what was wrong.

Was it this house? Was it the heating system, was there mold in the walls? Dust mites?

Well, no, maybe it had to do with being twenty pounds overweight and all the smoking and drinking.

Each year I can pretty much count on a week or two of cranial unhappiness at the beginning of September. I feel it has come a little early this year.

Distance: 8 miles
Duration: 1:06:52
Avg Pace: 8:21
Route: Forest Hills-Cain Park

Yesterday I had a headache pretty much all day. Today my throat is scratchy and I feel a bit like I have a cold. What will I accomplish today? It is August 27th. I have four days to complete the script.

Temperature: 63°
Climate: rain
Weight: 158.5 lbs.
Intake: yogurt & granola
Hydration: yes
Water Stop: yes
Stretches: yes

As I lay half-asleep after my wife had gotten up (she would return in a half-hour with coffee) I thought I heard it raining, but it wasn't. The pavement was dry. I suited up and stepped out ... and there was mist. It was too cool and I was too ill to run without a jacket.

My voice was resonant, like a sick person, and she encouraged me not to overdo it. It occurred to me that maybe I should run later, in the afternoon or evening. But what if I felt worse later in the day? Besides, I was dressed. I headed out.

The rain did not get any heavier, though it was steady and light for the first half of my run. By then I was feeling good, my pace had picked up. I did it. Eight miles, as the sky lightened so did my chest.

Just made myself a big, fat eggs and cheese breakfast burrito with onions, tomatoes, peppers and hot sauce.

Running twenty on Sunday morning.

What's That Lyric?
Long Hot Summer - The Style Council

Moving in time and space.

Here and now.

Late night Tuesday night. Hot bed, long pajamas. Sinus headache. Not fair. Tried to catch a few more minutes of sleep, just ended up with a more troubling headache and no time to run. Oh dear, missed a day. Hum.

Recently I began measuring my breakfast cereal according the "serving size" on the side of the box. One cup of Raisin Bran to 1/2 cup milk. It is less than I am accustomed to eating, but it perfectly satisfies.

Temperature: 57°
Distance: 3.38 miles
Avg Pace: 7:52
Climate: cool, breezy

Loving the new shoes. Haven't stretched in two days. Stretching or writing, you must choose. So far I have been managing well ... however, one pleasant side effect of performing the stretches is that it has toned my linea semilunaris in a most pleasing way, and in a fashion sit-ups or crunches do not.

Upon your imaginary forces work.

Baseline: 178.5 lbs.
Today: 163.5 lbs. (+0.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Oh, and my doctor? The one who recommended diet soda? She was appalled to learn we drink whole milk, and urged me to switch to skim. These tedious old fools.

2014 Playlist
Easy Money - Johnny Marr
Busy Earnin' - Jungle
Me and My Broken Heart - Rixton
Do You - Spoon
Two Bodies - Flight Facilities ft. Emma Louise
Studio - Schoolboy Q ft. BJ The Chicago Kid
Happy Idiot - TV on the Radio

Studio. Huh. It's like a modern-day Beth.