Something happens to you to throw you off course.

Big weekend. State Thespian Festival. Backstage Bash. Going to rain later, time to run now. Beautiful fucking hot gorgeous day.

Distance: 4 miles 

Duration: 38:35
Pace: 9:39

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 78°
Climate: overcast & hot

Mood: good, you know?

Push it out on a warm and breezy Sunday afternoon before the rain. Good playlist, too.

2004 Playlist

Just a Ride - Jem

(Reach Up For The) Sunrise - Duran Duran

This Fire - Franz Ferdinand

Holiday - Green Day

Grown So Ugly - The Black Keys

Golden Touch - Razorlight

Ooh La La - Ditty Bops

Breathe Me - Sia

Walk Away - Kelly Clarkson

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

Whatsername - Green Day

What was 2004? First iPod, which started this entire endeavor. Seriously, without modern audio technology, I would not be a runner. I always ran, but I never ran consistently until this year. Also? New York International Fringe Festival, and the end of Bad Epitaph.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec. (2x)

Upper body:  reps
Water: yes

Saturday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, doughnut

Lunch: Caesar wrap, Doritos, cookie

Dinner: tater tots, chicken strip, GLBC Burning River (2x)

So many events, so few vegetables.

Sunday

Breakfast: coffee w/cream

Lunch: veggie bao, potato chips, fizzy water

Treat: raw cookie dough (yes)

Happy Hour: tea w/cream & honey

Dinner: spaghetti & meatless sauce

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 179.5 lbs. (-2.0)

New Goal: 175 lbs.

When routine bites hard and ambitions are low.

Augustus Gloop will not be harmed.

No, but for reals. Seriously. You guys. Sitting on this wooden bench all week has been a real drag. And not only do I feel it in my butt, but also my left calf feels on the verge of straining. Ugh. Ugh, ugh. Time for some serious dance moves.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Avg. Pace: 8:09
Duration: 26:29
Route: Boulevard Loop

Took some effort to motivate myself out the door. The last few days have spoiled me, this isn't even  cold. Part of my reluctance (not ambivalence, I was looking forward to this) was no doubt due to the fact that this is the first evening run I have taken in some time.

Yes, long days sitting can be wearying -- however, one of our actors was ill today and so I co-taught a class in Death of a Salesman. I even acted in a scene, that was refreshing.

Pavement: dry
Temperature: 25°
Climate: cold and clear
Mood: managing

Baseline: 174 lbs.
Today: 170 lbs. (-0-)
New Goal: 165 lbs.
Ideal: 160 lbs.

As the years pass I have been discovering that the "aughts" were perhaps the least interesting decade in popular music -- in general, of course, you don't need to hit me up with all the great music released 2000-2009, there is always great music. Just, in aggregate. I find it tedious.

I had to skip a number of songs just to settle on these:

2005 Playlist
Galang - M.I.A.
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Fall Out Boy
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco
Don't Look Back - Telepopmusik
Summer Skin - Death Cab for Cutie
Augustus Gloop - Danny Elfman
Technologic - Daft Punk

Go for it!!!

Brief breath of spring, back into it on Monday. Very nice run today, the city seems like its still digging out from the early snow two weeks ago. Not the snow -- the leaves and branches.

Been using the wii every other morning ... should be every morning, but this week was challenging, there were a number of before-hours emergencies which kept me from writing or exercising. But still, there is something like a regimen happening, which is reassuring. These things must be carefully maintained.

At the very least, fifteen minutes of writing in longhand. Fifteen minutes of reading. Fifteen minutes of exercise. Every weekday morning. Doesn't sound like a lot, and yet. The writing gets done. The reading gets done. The exercise gets done. This idea that if I do not have an hour or two to concentrate ... I mean, I can't concentrate when I have bags of time. These brief moments, every day, encourage me to focus.

Temperature: 61°
Climate: cool.
Distance: 3.25 miles
Weight: 174.5 lbs.


This is my friend Danny, his brother and I went to school together. Danny is a high-spirited engine of positive energy. He is also a public school teacher, so he is double-plus awesome. When I was in my mid-20s and he was teaching at Aviation High, he asked me to adjudicate his school's Shakespeare monologue recitation competition, which was the first time I was asked to do that.

He is currently working in Waldorf, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. Please enjoy this inspiring motivational video!

Punkrocker Playlist
Punkrocker - Teddybears ft. Iggy Pop
Take Me To The Riots - Stars
Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
Yeah Yeah Yeah - New Politics
I Don't Want To Fall In Love * - She Wants Revenge
Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie & The Banshees
In The Morning - Junior Boys