Feels good to make your body move.

Friday was a bigger day than I realized. This morning I woke and my keister was sore, on the left side. It was from all of the dagger fights and death scenes.

Slept eight hours, no melatonin, no Benadryl. No alcohol, no weed. Just Zoloft and caffeine this morning. I have a dry cough, which I contribute to dehydration and a lot of talking yesterday. I have to get on that.

Distance: 3.5 miles
Duration: 34:24
Pace: 9:50

Beautiful afternoon by the river, keep that head up, it's good for you to straighten your spine.

But, ooh. My butt hurts.

2020 Playlist

Murphy's Law - Róisín Murphy

Blinding Lights - The Weeknd 

Music Makes Me High - Avalanches

Model Villages - Idles

Interstellar Love - Avalanches ft. Leon Bridges

Open Relations - Heart Bones

Feels Good - Longshot ft. Tgik, Taylor Ray  DJ Serpico

Levitating - Dua Lipa

Your Love (Déjà Vu) - Glass Animals

Route: Hocking River Bike Path
Temperature: 52°
Climate: Overcast and breezy
Pavement: damp
Mood: good

Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, scrambled eggs w/spinach, sour cream w/salsa, buttered toast, bacon w/syrup, clementine
Lunch: café au lait, coffe cake
Dinner: white chili w/chicken, corn, avocado, onion, cheese, corn chips & crème fresh 

Dance Party: Athletic Lite NA

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Shortly after mile two I felt a twinge in my right glute. That could be a sidelining injury, and right when the season is about to turn. I walked, stoped, stretched, and headed on gently.

Take it easy, old man. You are in a mood for running and we do not want to be sitting on the bench.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 31:11
Pace: 10:03
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 40°
Climate: sunny & cool
Mood: good
Weight: 187.5 lbs. (-2.0)

Intake

Breakfast: granola, yogurt, dried fruit, sunflower seeds & honey, coffee (2x)

Treat: half a bookie (book-shaped cookie) w/milk

Lunch: Boba tea, macaroni & cheese

Snack: cheese & crackers, beer

Dinner: beans, greens, squash, chicken & beer

Also; fizzy water (1x)

2005 Playlist

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

[REDACTED]

Robot Rock - Daft Punk

Buttons - Pussycat Dolls

Waters of Nazareth - Justice

Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem

Chicken Payback - The Bees

Black Horse & the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall

Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists

I had put a new song on my playlist, and it actually offended me. Oops. I think it meant to suggest one thing, and it made me think another thing, and that was it. Can't deal with it.

A lifestyle of fun.

Somebody that I used to blow.

Last week, right after the wife left town, our boy came down with a serious allergy attack which has left him coughing ever since. He's been given several medications to alleviate the condition, we think he may have a touch of the asthma.

What I can say is that he has spent very little time out of doors or getting any exercise at all, which is only right for recovery but he's very squirrelly and has been jumping around a lot. We are overdue for a run/bike ride.

Distance: 2.35 miles
Avg. Pace: 8:02
Duration: 18:54
Route: Horizon Loop

However, my back end continues to trouble me I no long think it is a hip condition, or if it was that is no longer the issue. It pains me to sit for long periods. No idea what will come of this.

Pavement: wet
Temperature: 43°
Climate: rain & thunder
Mood: confounded

Bracing run in the rain. Cold rain, brief run. Good to get out an move my legs. Today is a personal day, the wife is home, kids still on break. We did not have the opportunity to visit the zoo on Calvin's Day, so that is where we are headed now.

A walk through the zoo in the rain. Sounds like fun.

Baseline: 174 lbs.
Today: 164 lbs. (-1.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.
Ideal: 160 lbs.

2012 Playlist
Madness - Muse
Somebody That I Used to Know (Mike D Remix) - Gotye ft. Kimbra
Live While We're Young - One Direction
Paddling Out - Miike Snow
Take a Walk - Passion Pit

Now I've got the floor.

I got my ...

Packing my lunch is not just about saving money, it's about eating well. Monday I forgot my lunch, lunch I packed and then left on the counter. So I got sushi, which is all well and good, but I would be deceiving myself to suggest a lunch portion of sashimi with an entire California roll is "light."

That evening the wife had prepared a delicious meal, a tray baked chicken dish. It wouldn't have been a bad day's consumption except for all the cookies at the first reading of my new play.

Little obsessed by eating these days, apparently.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Avg. Pace: 8:18
Duration: 27:01
Route: Forest Hill Loop

After the rain, wet and cool. One more day of Strawberry Spring (tomorrow) and then it will return to something like winter.

Good run, brisk, breathing hard. There is a deep pain in the back end, the boy and I need to engage in stretches together, I need to make a plan for that. He complains about aches. I know he is about to enter puberty, he's moving in and I am moving out. We both need to take care of ourselves.

Pavement: wet
Temperature: 34°
Climate: cool & damp
Mood: busy moving

Baseline: 174 lbs.
Today: 169 lbs. (+0.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.
Ideal: 160 lbs.

2014 Playlist
Batches & Cookies - Lizzo ft. Sophia Eris
Daffodils - Mark Ronson ft. Kevin Parker
Dancehall Domine - The New Pornographers
Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
Two Bodies - Flight Facilities ft. Emma Louise
My Type - Saint Motel

I'm no good at acting while the camera's on the run.

So much better than "Suicide Squad."

Went to see a movie last night, we saw Fences. It's a great movie, but long. I am very glad Denzel has announced he is producing all ten plays in August Wilson's Century Cycle for film, but I question his decision not to edit very much. I'm all for it, I just hope it sells, people can complain about long movies.

Wilson is a poet and his words are what it's all about, so I was happy for the entirety of it. I have read this play but have never seen it on stage.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Avg. Pace: 8:26
Duration: 27:24
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Pavement: dry? crazy.
Temperature: 34°
Climate: cool
Mood: all right

It wouldn't have seemed so long, except I think there was something wrong with my seat. About ninety minutes in my left gluteus began to ache with a sharp pain and I found it very difficult to get comfortable.

I am very aware of how much sitting I do, there's a lot of sitting this week, on a hard, wooden bench, and in the cold, too. Lots of sitting, the exercise can only help so much.

Baseline: 174 lbs.
Today: 170 lbs. (-0-)
Goal: 170 lbs.
Ideal: 165 lbs.

1985 Playlist
A Love Bizarre - Sheila E.
In Between Days - The Cure
Television Man - Talking Heads
How She Threw It All Away - The Style Council
Everything She Wants - Wham!
I'm Your Man - Wham!

Those roads. These skies.

Mitch's Long Back (2016)
Daniel Maidman

No complaints. Really, none. The past two winters were arduous, and I accepted them as well. This one has been mild, only the past week dipping into frozen temperatures. I could run, I have run while the mercury is in the teens. However, between my children's schedules and my own, plus the deep freeze, it has not been possible.

Soon the temps will rise again. The ice will melt. See? No complaints.

However, I have been feeling pains, strange pains. My left gluteus maximus (yes, that) has been sore, intermittently, for several weeks. I believe I have been sitting far too much. I have had an awful lot of desk work lately and have been in front of that screen a great deal.

Then there's my car, a two-door Honda Civic (2005.) Driving slowly on these slippery roads has become a literal pain. I am used to the discomfort which comes with making a road trip to Athens, say. What is different is getting into my car as I did yesterday to drive the girl to a futsal game, and almost immediately feeling sore and crabby.

Following that, I got to sit in a chilled warehouse-like athletic facility for three hours. I should have watched the games on my feet. I often do more things on my feet. I should find some kind of secure platform on which to put my laptop for writing scripts.

The wife suggests incorporating my stretching exercises into my routine, which I think is a very good idea.

Instead of an image of my own ass, I decided to present you with a much more attractive piece of work, a sketch created by the extremely talented, Brooklyn-based artist and my friend Daniel Maidman.

Distance: 3.58 miles
Avg Pace: 9:34
Duration: 34:16
Route: Forest Hill Loop

Woah. That was a workout. Brilliant day, sun reflecting brightly off the snow, wore shades. The clumpy snow is hard on my knees and ankles, also I took the Forest Hill Park route, most of which was no different from the sidewalks (when I could stay on the paths) but the sidewalk up Forest Hills Blvd. I took back became extremely deep before I ditched it and walked in the street.

I had to walk because I had been lifting my knees so high to play over and through the drifts my heart was racing very fast. My heart is strong, but please. Let's not test that.

Temperature: 18°
Climate: cold and bright
Pavement: deep drifts of snow
Weight: 164 lbs.
Mood: decent

1999 Playlist
Thursday's Child - David Bowie
Futurama Theme - Christopher Tyng
Big Pimpin - Jay-z ft. UGK
Thank You - Dido
The Future of the Future (Stay Gold) - Everything But the Girl
Stars All Seem To Weep - Beth Orton
Porcelain - Moby