You can run, you can run. But it will catch up.

Current read.

Mind cloud. I do have things to accomplish. I am on a bit of a brain sabbatical. There is some writing, though. I think this weekend might be good, we'll see. I just convinced myself that I don't actually just write down whatever comes into my head. Except here.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 28:41
Pace: 9:15

Tuesday evening I started feeling something in the back of my throat, but it wasn't until Wednesday night that it broke out into something debilitating. That night I slept for twelve hours. And yet, by the time I got to urgent care -- today -- nothing. Post nasal drip? What? Anyway, I have a sore throat.

And the weather is nice. 

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 53°
Climate: partly cloudy & cool
Mood: a little drowsy

2011 Playlist

We Will Become Silhouettes - The Shins 

Ritual Union - Little Dragon

Kyoto - Skrillex ft. Sirah

Little Talks - Of Monsters & Men

We Found Love - Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris

Money - The Drums

Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win - Beastie Boys ft. Santigold

Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris & Chrom3

In two more runs, I will be halfway through the year runs. And soon we will know if we will be attempting "number five." What's good about the year runs is that I don't have to think about what I am listening to next. If we return to training, that will be something to plan for. 

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 160 lbs.

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

We are North American scum.

Fatigue sets in. I am rousing myself to run this evening, even as there is dinner to be made, because I'm trying to keep up. But I don't know what to listen to, and I feel a bit weary and listless.

There are more than physical reasons why this is so. But it's challenging. 

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:12
Pace: 9:05

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 74°
Climate: cool ... but humid
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: no

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, fresh fruit w/granola & yogurt

Snack: fruit snacks

Lunch: slaw dog, chocolate mint frappe

Snack: kettle corn, orange juice

Dinner Prep: White Russian

Dinner: Turmeric coconut rice w/greens

O, what a morning!

This morning I felt weak and sore. We are no longer getting the rest. We have been getting no longer eight hours, merely seven, or fewer.

But I still do not drink on week nights, Abe o am not snacking. It is amazing how I can gain weight without sneaking cookies, soda, or chips. And yet, no cookies, soda or chips.

Man. Remember smoking? What was up with that?

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 39:41
Pace: 9:55

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 43°
Climate: sunny & cool

Mood: good

1993 Playlist

Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus & Pliers

Shape of My Heart  - Sting

Cannonball - The Breeders

All That She Wants - Ace of Base

Ripcord - Radiohead

Boom! Shake the Room - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

Killer/Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (Live) - George Michael

Nuthin' But a "G" Thang - Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg

Helpline Operator - The The

Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

Gepetto - Belly

What was 1993? Peak Guerrilla. The Taming of the Shrew. Operation Rescue Invasion. Womad. Mania. I wrote a lot. We were writing a lot.

Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec.

Upper body: 10 reps.
Water: yes

Monday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, granola  vanilla yogurt w/fresh strawberries, raspberries & banana

Coffee Break: latte w/oatmilk

Lunch: sausage and bacon pizza (1x), salad & ranch, ice cream cake 

Snack: half banana, fizzy water w/lemon

Dinner: pasta w/chicken apple sausage, apple, roasted squash and butter beans

There are those lattes, though.

Tuesday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, banana, cookie (one, and I made it.)

Lunch: leftover burrito

Dinner: last night's pasta

Dessert: 2 cookies, oatmilk

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 179.5 lbs. (-2.0)

Goal: 175 lbs.

Stranger roads than this one.

March passed with barely a headache. But now I have sinus pain every day. Wednesday afternoon my face felt worse and worse and I ended up crawling into bed all evening. Long night’s sleep, though.

Distance: 1 miles

Duration: 10:08

Route: one time around the block 

Temperature: 47°
Climate: overcast & mild

Pavement: dry
Mood: tired

Also? I have decided I do not like running in forty degree weather anymore. Like, for the duration. But hey, since I started running one milers, I guess I should.

1976 Playlist

Sunny - Boney M.

Afterglow - Genesis

You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees

 

Man. Illness. Sinus headache hangover. I feel like I'm starting from the beginning -- which I'm not. But today was a one mile slog. Overdressed, but I also didn't want to feel cold. Just a drag. But so glad I went.

 
Stretches: yes 
Abdominals: 90 sec.
Water: yes

Wednesday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, last night's Caesar salad

Lunch: Grilled Ceasar salad (fresh), two taglongs

Dinner: barbacoa burrito (half)

Thursday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, latte, blueberry muffin 

Lunch: last night's burrito, banana

Tea time: Cinnamon stick tea w/honey & cream, dried fruit & nuts

Dinner: ramen w/egg, carrot & scallions

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 183.5 lbs. (-0-)

Goal: 180 lbs.

And if I listen in I hear my own heart beating.

Now that it is cooling down, here are the rules:

1. Stretch longer. Stretch better.

2. Always take a break between days.

3. Run slower. Do not push against fatigue.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:47
Pace:10:15
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 67°
Climate: rainy & cool
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 182 lbs. (+0.5)

Goal: 180 lbs.

What is up with these playlists? Karina Longworth produces the amazing You Must Remember This podcast chronicling the "secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century." 

Earlier this year she presented a whopping twelve episodes about the manner in which Hollywood both pushed the boundaries of sexual activity on screen while also cleaving closely to heteronormative morality during the 1980s.

She curated this playlist, which is by its very subject matter is exactly the kind of music I prefer to run to, namely upbeat 80s technopop. And it's a long playlist!

Erotic80s Playlist

Strip - Adam Ant

This City Never Sleeps  - Eurythmics

In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins

Never Say Never - Romeo Void

Imagination - Laura Branigan

The Best is Yet to Come - Luba

One Night in Bangkok (slight return) - Murray Head

And we are spent.

Seasons don't fear the reaper.

Look, if I can't run on a basic Saturday afternoon, I may as well hang it up. Let's run!

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:05
Pace: 9:41
Route: Forest Hillovercast & damp Loop
Temperature: 54°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: okay
Weight: 175.5 lbs. (-1.5)

Weary run, underfed and overdressed. Here's how this needs to go: run either before or right after taking the boy to Saturday jazz. Don't wait, you'll just be hungry.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x), Count Chocula w/milk

Lunch: ravioli, candy bar (wtf?)

Dinner: TBA

Monster Bash Playlist!

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen

Halloween - Siouxsie & the Banshees

Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails

Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Unmarked Helicopters - Soul Coughing

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

I have heard Siouxie's Halloween more times in more places this season ... and I'd never heard it before this month!

The city streets are empty now.

Molly Seidel wins USA Bronze in 2:27.46
Women's Marathon, Toyko 2020 Olympics
Only her third marathon!
(My third marathon I ran 3:42:07)

This week has made me tired. Just tired. I will nap and wake up tired. Doesn't help that last night I woke at 2 AM, and tossed about in bed for an hour. Finally I got up and read before sleeping on the couch, then back in bed. The hours added up to a full night's sleep but it's not the same thing.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:25
Pace: 9:48
Route: Forest Hills Loop
Temperature: 72°
Climate: sunshine & light rain
Mood: better!
Weight: 171 lbs. (-1.0)

This is the first time I have shut out work for the duration of a two week vacation in twenty-five years. In fact, it was because I hadn't checked my work voice mail for two weeks in 1996 that we missed out on a promotional opportunity, a fact which seems trivial now but at the time I felt a great deal of shame about it. Since then I have continually checked my work email, all during vacations. I don't always respond, but I keep in touch. Not this year. Hopefully never again.

Tomorrow, however, I will have to resume in preparation for Monday. What will happen?

Intake
Breakfast: cafe con leche
Lunch: ramen w/fried egg & salsa

Snack: Four squares of cheese with four crackers.
Dinner: tomatoes w/oil & fresh basil, toasted pita w/lemon salt & oil, a variety of small cheeses

Tonight, Sean McPherson is playing nothing but the 70s. Gonna be a good night.

What's That Lyric?

Turn to Stone - ELO

Who's tripping down the streets of the city?

Beautiful day yesterday. Yes, it was a little chilly but we spent little time out doors. Mom joined us at the aquarium, I think she really liked that. Traditionally when we get the cemetery a little clean up is in order.

I realized some time ago that a communal grave for neonatal deaths would eventually lose attendants. People move, or they move on. After a hard winter, or any winter at all, the stone would be covered with mud, leaves, and acorns, perhaps a small toy or stuffed animal soaked in dirt.

We bring a small rake and a broom, tools to clean the stone before we decorate. Yesterday I was surprised to find it had been recently visited, someone had thoroughly cleaned the stone and there was a bouquet a blue and white silk flowers.

We remember.

Distance: 3 miles
Route: Forest Hill Loop

Slow run today, just chugging along. I am just exhausted. It doesn't help that I chose to wear the winter running jacket, it makes me feel like a plump bear.

Not just physically exhausted, emotionally so. There are so many things going on, in work, in art, and in family and family and more family. This did not start last month, I have felt as though the floor were about to collapse for some time now. And then it did.

But there's another floor beneath that one, and it caught me but it's also kind of creaky.

Temperature: 28°
Climate: cool
Weight: 162.5 lbs.
Mood: sleepy

1967 Playlist
Psyché Rock - Pierre Henry
Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
Windy - The Association
Run, Run, Run - The Velvet Undergound & Nico
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Blindman - Big Brither & The Holding Company
Carnaby St. - Book T. & The MG's

Warmdown
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's

Light will keep your heart beating in the future.

The end of a four-day holiday weekend in Cleveland. The wife made a heritage bird for Thanksgiving, we saw the premiere of Clara & The Nutcracker at Talespinner Children's Theatre and took my brother and his family for a walk around the shiny, new downtown Cleveland.

Thursday evening, the most unusual thing, my arms hurt. I am not used to having such extreme soreness following something as brief as a five-mile race, and never so intensely in my arms. My only guess is that with the slushy, slippery pavement, I was holding a lot of tension in my arms in an attempt to keep my balance.

On Friday I am very happy to say my entire family pitched in and did a lot of cleaning up of the house, especially the downstairs. Today is the last day of November, and I have kids who really, really want to bring the Christmas decorations out of the attic, so I think I know what's going on today.

However, right now it is fifty-five degrees out. And we're not getting any better than that.

Temperature: 55°
Distance:3.25 miles

Also, my abdomen. Lots of upper body work in that race. Maybe this is the beginning of something good.

Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating In The Future Playlist
Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating In The Future * - Mike Doughty
Super Bon Bon - Soul Coughing
Soundtrack To Mary - Soul Coughing
Pompeii - Bastille
See a Little Light - Bob Mould
Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants
Vegetable - Mike Doughty
The New Pollution - Beck
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People

Funky Gen-X Stylee. Haven't run eight times in November since 2009. Things feel good.

A little wine and a moan.

Weather has been ideal for running, and yet. Since we returned from vacation, the days have been long and inaccessible, at the service of work, children and home. Baseball games, soccer practice, music lessons, tending the injuries, enjoying movies and television, and the company of friends.

But no running. Evenings end around midnight, the mornings spent either writing or sleeping in ... but usually sleeping in.

There has been yardwork, however. More proud of the front beds than I have in some time. Moved a ton (literally!) of earth last weekend, weeding and planting and making all nice. At least, in the front yard. Don't go in the back yard.

Sitting at my desk for eight hours a day, and not exercising, makes me torpid and dull. Again with the right vastus lateralis, always a pain when I am off the road.

Temperature: 77°
Distance: 3.25 miles

Better any run than no run at all. It's Boy Camp this weekend, I am about to pick him up from goalie practice and we are going to see opening night of Cleve Shakes Romeo and Juliet BECAUSE WE ARE CRAZY LIKE THAT.

Friday Night Playlist
Friday Night - Lily Allen
Bryn - Vampire Weekend
Smile - Lily Allen
Golden Touch - Razorlight
Shine - Take That
Pizza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian
Henrietta - The Fratellis
Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
Not Big - Lily Allen

God knows this heart of mine could use a rest.

Adventures In Slumberland
"It's quite a treat."
- Christine Howey, Rave & Pan

Slumberland Playlist

Dreamworld - Midnight Oil

Daydream Believer - The Monkees

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics

Wake Up - XTC

Last Night (I Didn't Get To Sleep At All) - The Fifth Dimension

A Japanese Dream - The Cure

The District Sleep Alone Tonight - The Postal Service

Behind The Wall of Sleep - The Smithereens

Sleepyhead - Passion Pit

My eyes are on fire, my head is throbbing. Physically, it has been a challenging day. I woke with a slight headache which has carried on, slow and low, throughout the day. Nice evening with the kids, putting Christmas decorations on the mantle (tree, tomorrow, I promised) but I did not want to go to bed feeling like this, I wanted to run now. Blood will circulate, breathing will be deep.

However, not wanting a repeat of yesterday, I wore a lighter hat. A bandana would be too think, I opted for a butter beanie instead. I have not used one for a while. Now I remember why. They push my glasses deep into my face, it is just too tight.

Otherwise, however ... nice run. Cool and crisp, surprising amount of energy, considering. I am hoping that this end-of-day run gives me a good night's sleep, and pleasant dreams.

Temperature: 36°

Climate: cool, man.

Distance: 3.25 miles

Weight: 173.5 lbs.

Man. The last four years I ran a mere four times during the month of November ... well, except for 2010. Then I ran five.

I'm staring at the asphalt.

Don't know what happened. I was driving home with the windows down and I felt fine. The drive home, that relatively speaking brief drive home can make me bleary-eyed, it's just boring. But I felt fine, for the most part ... but by the time I got to the grocery store, I was tired.

The grocery store can be a major soul-sucking experience, I don't care which store it is. Sometime it hits me in produce, Good God, it's the first section of the store and I have been here for half my life already. But that wasn't the case today, I was in and out of there real fast with a lot of great fruits and vegetables.

But then I went into the aisles ... I didn't think we needed much but whatever I wanted, I couldn't find it. That's when I aged a year. But the time I emerged into the hideously bright parking lot, I was spent. I came home, dinner was almost ready, everyone was active and on top of things, I am was like Zombie Dad. It was pathetic.

The boy needed to get to baseball, and the wife generously offered to take the girl to practice soccer in an adjacent field, so that I could do whatever I liked -- with an emphasis on taking a run. Maybe a short one. Could do me good.

Actually, just writing this has already done me good.

I think I was hungry.

Temperature: 82°
Climate: warm
Distance: 3.25 miles

Freshly-mow lawns, bright, early-evening sunshine, and what do you know -- other runners. The kind of people who regularly use the gym. That's nice. Get off my sidewalk, I was out here when it was nineteen degrees, who do you think you are?

Stopped by the schoolyard where the boy was practicing and the ladies were kicking the ball around with boys who were absolutely incapable of not touching the ball with their hands.

Running feels so good. The running feels good. I feel good. This day is nearing its end. There is so much to accomplish in each and every one. And these are good things to notice.

You Make Me Feel Genius Playlist
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Die Another Day - Madonna
Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) - Mika
Next Girl (168 bpm) - The Black Keys
Free - Graffiti6
Taken - One Direction

I'm standing here on the ground.

Distance: 4 miles
Route: To Parkside Blvd. and back.

Exhausted all yesterday, got to bed reasonably early (shot for 9, hit 9.45 - damn you, sexy POTUS) with a non-alocoholic beverage as my nightcap. Still, woke at 5 AM thinking ... what? No. No, can't do this. Long day today, first night of rehearsals, reports due, must rest, have solid, clear concentration ... so, of course, my mind was spinning and there was no way I was going back to sleep.

So I got up. Tomorrow morning is the Friday of Running. If I can make tomorrow, then I get a day off. That's how we do this.

1983 Playlist
Let the Music Play (12" version) - Shannon
Holiday Road - Lindsey Buckingham
No More Lies - Neil SHon & Jan Hammer
(Let's All) Turn On - Hoodoo Gurus
Don't Change (164 bpm) - INXS
Gone Daddy Gone (160 bpm) - Violent Femmes
Walking In Your Footsteps - The Police
Leave It - Yes
I Love You - Yello
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
What Difference Does it Make? - The Smiths

Cooldown:
The Invisible Man - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Managed to run another morning in the windbreaker, when it dips below freezing again I will require something warmer. Took it easy this morning, I have been pushing it. Shins stinging, my left knee burning. It feels good to run. Sometimes it feels bad to stop.

Temperature: 33º
Climate: cold air, dry pavement.
Weight: 177.5 lbs.
Snack: no. just forgot.
Hydration? yes
Stretches? yes

Success is mine. 'Cause I've got the key.

Distance: 4 miles
Route: To Parkside Blvd. and back.

Day one, nervous. Day two, cocky. Day three, wretched.

Woke with sinus pain. Must sleep when I can sleep. Took pain reliever, pseudoephedrine, and put on a nasal strip and hit the road. During mile three I began to feel sick to my stomach, but I pushed through and while my headache is gone, nothing would serve so well as crawling back into bed. Ah well. There's always tonight.

1979 Playlist
Got the Time - Joe Jackson
Plastic Passion (168 bpm) - The Cure
Cleveland Rocks - Ian Hunter
Brand New Cadillac - The Clash
Making Plans For Nigel - XTC
Let's Go - The Cars
Look Back In Anger - David Bowie
Touch and Go - The Cars
Making It - David Naughton
Planet Claire - The B-52's
Secret Agent Man - Devo

Cooldown:
Tears of a Clown - The Beat

The 80s begin today.

Temperature: 23º
Climate: less icy than yesterday
Weight: 180 lbs.
Snack: Banana
Hydration? yes
Stretches? yes

Tomorrow: Sleeping In. Nothing Better.

And now I'm feeling better.

Nope.

Sorry.

Christ, no.
Residency Training period means driving an hour each way to a high school in Elyria. By Wednesday, I am usually becoming very drowsy on the drive home. This is nothing new, it has been going on for nigh 11 years.

In the old days my drug of choice was a 20 ounce Coke or -- when I was training for the marathon -- some kind of "energy" drink. I am not proud of this. This week it takes a 16 oz. soda to get through the afternoon, and for the drive home I play loud rock music, which does the trick. Talk radio is out, it is not out of the ordinary for me to be listening to David Bianculli reviewing the latest hip cable program I can't afford when I suddenly start wailing like a small child, OH MY GOD!! THIS IS SOOO BOOOOORING!!!!

Yes, I know. Everyone does that when David Bianculli is on. But I feel it more.

1974 Playlist
Oye Como Va - Santana
Verb: That's What's Happening - Zachary Sanders
Back in NYC/Lilywhite Lilith - Genesis
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

The trip home this afternoon was longer than usual, picking up cat food, then the boy, and it's been dark and rainy and when I got home I had a choice. Twenty-minute nap, or twenty-minute run.

I chose wisely.

Distance: 2 miles
Temperature: 43º
Weight: 180.5 lbs.
Weather: rain. pleasant rain.

FYI -- When stopping at the grocery store for cat food, I did not buy up a can of Pringles. I was standing in the aisle. I was looking at them. I had it in my hand, Marcus.

Then I remembered it's Marcos pizza night.

Can you spare one dream for me?

Skipped a day. Getting so tired as the week has moved on. Would like more sleep. Taking a 9.30 pm run can be exhilarating, but it can also leave me wrecked for the following morning. Little writing going on this week. Hope to alter that tomorrow.

Kids spent the night at my parents, we took this opportunity to see WAR HORSE. Good movie, very well made. Pure Spielberg, however, all of your emotions handed to you in a neatly wrapped box. Still, as I have been diving into World War One history, the extremely realistic (as if I would know) battle scenes are thrilling and absolutely horrible.

The dirty-dirty girls love Benedict Cumberbatch.
1971 Playlist
Baba O'Riley - The Who
The Devil's Answer - Atomic Rooster
Oh Yoko - John Lennon
Fireball - Deep Purple
Meet Me On The Corner - Lindisfarne
Bitch - The Rolling Stones
If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens

Distance: 2 miles
Temperature: 40º
Weight: 184.5 lbs.
Weather: clear & cool w/dry pavement & slippery crusty ice

To be born again.

Ladies and Gentlemen ... 45 Playlists for 45 Years.

1968 Playlist
Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby) - Aretha Franklin
If I Had a Hammer - Leonard Nimoy
Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom Prison) - Johnny Cash
Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones

Spring ends today. Happy New Year.

Weariness. I was looking forward to running, and had a good morning (no New Year's hangovers in this house) but as I geared up I started feeling a bit overwhelmed. I ran consistently, without stopping, but after a couple blocks I decided to take the 2 mile course instead of the 3 miler.

I want to run every day, every other day, get back into a rhythm, a need. And to have legs and lungs that can take it. I need to work up to this, lately if I try three or four mile runs, it wrecks me for the rest of the day. That's not how it's supposed to feel.

It is a new year, a big year. Time is an issue, but so is energy, strength, endurance. The exercise is supposed to make everything else possible, and not its opposite.

Every run I will feature a playlist for each year from the one in which I was born to the present, in chronological order. That's new. I am wondering if the forward trajectory of years (rather random annual playlists) will give me additional energy.

Wish me luck. And good luck to you!

Distance: 2 miles
Temperature: 52º
Weight: 180.5 lbs.
Weather: rainy, chilly.

This is how I deal

Afraid of running. Hmn. That's new.

It's not even freezing, not quite. The ground cover is slippery. Slushy. And I have not been out for two and a half weeks, it has been so cold, there have been birthday parties, rehearsals, and so on. Whatever. Life intrudes, so what.

I would rather sleep. But I won't. Yay for me.

1998 Playlist
The Way - Fastball
Jump Jive An' Wail - Brian Setzer Orchestra
To Ulrike M. (Zero 7 Mix) - Doris Days & Zero 7
Chair - Sister Soleil
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Millennium - Robbie Williams
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) - Green Day
Circles - Soul Coughing

Distance: 3.3 miles
Temperature: 34º
Weather: misty
Groundcover: slush
Weight: 168 lbs.

And I can't stop eating shit. The wife thinks I have some special ability to lose weight whenever I choose to, but she is wrong about that.

Now I have a headache. Uhm. I am feeling a little ground right now.

Waiting for the climax

You know what is difficult? Maintaining an exercise regimen when you are just damn tired.

1989 Playlist
Praying To A New God (164 bpm) - Wang Chung
Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over) - Technotronic ft. Ya Kid K
Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun - The Beastie Boys
Steppin' To The A.M. - 3rd Bass
Electric Chair - Prince
Merely A Man - XTC
Ladies First - Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love
On the Greener Side - Michelle Shocked
Pet Semetary - The Ramones

Distance: 3.6 miles
Temperature: 28º
Weather: cool
Groundcover: and now - crusty snow
Weight: 166.5 lbs.

Moving my hips like yeah

So what am I doing. I am making up for time off by running (nearly) every day. Running 3 miles a day is no big thing. Running three miles in snow is. The crusty, icy patches irritating and potentially damaging, but that's not what makes it the most difficult. It's the places that just have snow, light, slippery snow. My thighs get so tired. The front of my thighs, and my inner thighs. My calves hurt later on, because I am lifting my toes so much as I run.

So, the cold? No, not really. Not until it gets closer to ten degrees, I'm not even wearing the neckwrap yet. The wind, sure, especially on my way out up Monticello, but by the time I cut West on Lee it has subsided, most runs. It is simply wearying.


2009 Playlist
Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal Feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome
Hi Friend! - Deadmau5 Feat. MC Flipside
Fireflies - Owl City
New In Town - Little Boots
This Must Be The Place - Miles Fisher
Uprising - Muse
TiK ToK - Ke$ha
Sexy Bitch - David Guetta Feat. Akon
Animal - Miike Snow
Party In The U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus
1901 - Phoenix
Tigerlily - La Roux

Distance: 5.15 miles
Temperature: 20º
Weather: cold. just cold.
Groundcover: still a little mushy, not yet ice. hard to manage.
Weight: 161 lbs. (Broken scale?)