Everybody hates a tourist.

We've having an empty nesters "staycation" downtown. The boy is on a weekend camping trip, so we've gotten a room at the Drury and today we're seeing a Guardians game. I haven't taken a casual run around downtown in sixteen years.

Distance: 2.6 miles

Duration: 24:38
Pace: 9:22

Route: Public to Playhouse Square Loop

Temperature: 68
Climate: sunny & warm

Mood: good

Hotel headache this morning. It never fails, never wear long leggings to bed. Always, always, always keep water, pain reliever, and eye shades next to the bed.

I was lying awake, fretting over how well we did last night. 

Early Alternative Playlist

Movin’ On Up - Primal Scream

Common People - Pulp

The Lovecats - The Cure

Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs

Dear God - XTC

Because the Night - Patti Smith

Here’s Where the Story Ends - Sundays

  

On that 2007 run I appraised my surroundings and found them full of memory.

• Turning onto Lakeside, running past the convention center, where we ran a few Turkey Trots and Cleveland Marathons (Halfs & Whole) in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2018.
• Marching down Lakeside, for science and Black lives in 2017 and 2020.
• Taking West 3rd to and around Public Square, where we played in 2016, and saw Henry V in 2019.
• Down Euclid Avenue, where we saw Sleater-Kinney at the HOB in 2015
• I got sushi that almost killed me from a certain grocery store in 2019
• At East 9th where we saw the Cavs parade in 2016
• Past East 14th where the Hanna reopened in 2008.
• And working and walking and working and walking.

Taking East 13th to Superior and back to the Drury. There are too many thoughts of downtown to recollect. And that makes me glad.

Stretches: yes
Abdominals: tbd

Upper body: tbd
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee, Bloody Mary, yogurt parfait w/granola, English muffin w/butter

Lunch: nachos & beer

Happy Hour: beer (2x), popcorn

Dinner: old fashioned, rigatoni w/meatball, bread

All the booze!

Another day.

Your Public Square

Yeah. I am totally ready for my family to return home to me. I am very happy they are having a good time at the beach. The photos are glorious. But I miss them very much, and want them to fill this house again.

The past several days the excitement continues to flood through the streets of Cleveland. Yesterday, they officially re-opened Public Square, and it is something to see. A multi-use space, with a field and a fountain (the kind you can play in) with a cafe and all the traditional features; Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Moses Cleaveland, Mayor Tom Johnson.

And the Tribe has won thirteen in a row. Thirteen in a row. That is a streak which stretches back to 1951. What the hell is happening to my town?

I have taken several walks up and down Euclid Avenue the past few days, not just to stretch my legs and look around but also the meet with folks at the library to discuss final preparations for our tour of Twelfth Night. Yes, there are things happening, and in my small way I am contributing to them.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Route: Forest Hill Loop

I need one line of dialogue which explains almost everything, without just saying everything. I know where it goes, and who says it. But I don't know what it is yet.

However, I did figure another exchange that will clarify certain other things in a manner which remains oblique.

This is why I run.

Temperature: 66°
Climate: light rain, humid - sweaty!
Weight: 164.5 lbs.
Mood: good

Go Playlist
You Used to Hold Me - Calvin Harris
Breathe - Télépopmusik
Marvo Ging - The Chemical Brothers
Heart of Glass - Nouvelle Vague
Take California - The Propellerheads

Oh, you confounding, unnamed first decade of this millennium.