Stay on the streets of this town.

Theater camp! So many moving pieces, and yet. It’s cool, you know? And it’s a great team. And great campers. I know it’s only the second day, but things feel healthy.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 28:35
Pace: 9:13

Last night we went to the game, we lost in the tenth. You know, they keep doing these things to pick up the pace, but they can’t speed up the time it takes to put in a pitcher.

And yet, I feel good. And the camp week is now half over. Funny how the time goes by.

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 85°
Climate: sunny & hot
Mood: good!

Forget About Me (The Breakfast Club Play) Playlist

Don't You (Forget About Me) 12" Version - Simple Minds

March of the Swivel Heads - The Beat

Dancing in the Dark - Lucy Dacus

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

She Plays Bass - beabadoobe

The Middle - Zedd ft. Maren Morris & Grey

Weird Science - Oingo Boingo

See You at Your Funeral - PUP

Got a Zoom rehearsal tonight for a public reading of a new play script this weekend. Made what the kids call an "inspo" playlist.

Stretches: does camp count?
Water: yes
Weight: 165 lbs. (-2.0)

Hot run!

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

Life is short.

A chore-free Saturday. How far will we run?

Distance: 5.75 miles

Duration: 53:45
Pace: 9:20

The wife is having a tremendous west coast adventure (see photo) and I am celebrating the completion of the school year.

When she goes out of town, I have these fantasies of organizing and de-cluttering and that often lasts six hours on the first day.

As she is out over two weekends, not just one, I am hoping to accomplish more than usual. The weather has lifted my spirits.

Route: Forest Hill-Cain Park Loop
Temperature: 60°
Climate: ideal
Mood: good

Yesterday and today, I have felt pain across my chest. Not like "chest pain" but more like muscle pain, perhaps from overexertion, I do not know. After this run, I do not feel it any longer. 

High School Run (1982-1985)

Fantastic Day (12" Version) (152 bpm) - Haircut One Hundred

Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade

Doctor! Doctor! (Phil Thornalley Remix) - Thompson Twins

New Religion (Carnival Remix) - Duran Duran

Don't Box Me In (160 bpm) - Stewart Copeland ft. Stanard Ridgway

Two Minute Warning - Depeche Mode

New Kind of Kick - The Cramps

Hello Again - The Cars

Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life - Indeep

What Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) (Unsocial Mix) - Wham!

Black Diamond - The Replacements

Baby I'm a Star - Prince & the Revolution

(You Can Still) Rock In America (165 bpm) - Night Ranger

I Confess - The Beat

Remarkable, a longer run, a slower run, a casual run, a beautiful run. The result? My mind went places it does not normally go on a shorter run. I started thinking about the future, not the past, making plans for camp, for the writing workshop, and also the Wilde scene work.

Exercise is good. Thinking is better.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 165 lbs. (-0-)

If you watch a David Lynch movie before bed, don't be surprised if you have odd dreams.

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

We did it again! Fifteen runs in a month. Consistency. Three months running, a streak I have not maintained since 2023, the last period when I would try to run every day. It is a conscious choice not to run every day (unless making up for a missed day) and it has kept me, for the time being, from injury.

I'm better than ever.

Missed a day, could not be helped. Between camp and the almost constant rain, running was not possible yesterday. Today, however, is optimal. Because now, it is about to scorch.

You complained about the rain? Welcome to a week's worth of ninety degree temperatures. Hot runs, all the way down.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 29:53
Pace: 9:37

Fuck these earbuds. The right one often fails to charge, I ran with one in. It was fine, but not preferable.

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 64°
Climate: sunny & damp
Mood: all right 
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 160 lbs.

Sore knees. All day on my feet yesterday. Or rather, the last two weeks. Party tonight, a travel weekend, all I want is to stay home.

Feel Good Workout Mix

Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris

Better Than Ever - Flight Facilities ft. Aloe Blacc

Feel It - Jazzy

Pumper - Mai Lan

Up 2 U - Walk the Moon

Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim

Praise You - Rita Ora ft. Fatboy Slim

She Wants You to Move - N.E.R.D.

All Fired Up - Pat Benetar

Do Your Thing - Basement Jaxx

Rats that run round and round in the maze.

Originally a transphobic meme
promoting corporal punishment,
but I fixed it.
If you feel unsafe in your home, please call 911.
You are not alone.

When it's a camp week, and you have things going on that keep you up late, and you have to wake early to get to Brook Park, why wake up even earlier to take a run?

Because it feels good to do the running, that's why. 

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 26:30
Pace: 8:32

160-169 BPM Playlist

Someday - Bridgit Mendler

Surf Wax America - Weezer

All Wrong - Kaada

Lies - Rolling Stones

I Love You, Suzanne - Lou Reed

Take on Me - Weezer

Straight to My Heart - Sting

Skyway - The Replacements

Goodbye to You - Scandal

Route:
Temperature:
Climate:
Mood:
Stretches:
Water:

Weight: 160 lbs.

Still.

Oh! Run away.

Waiting for the sun to rise to take my run. It's the first day of camp. We had the first read-through of the script yesterday, and that went very well.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 26:51
Pace: 8:39

Brisk!

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 64°
Climate: after the rain
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Weight: 159 lbs.

Drank my dinner last night. The Tonys!

160-169 BPM Playlist

A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey

I Saw Him Standing There - Tiffany 

Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers

The Adults Are Talking - The Strokes

Runaways - XTC

The Night Before - The Beatles

Dilemma - Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland

Have you got enough gas?

Theater Camp is closed. I have been exposed to Covid. Also, there was an awful lot of movie theater popcorn available there. I don't know which is worse.

Day off from work, a reward for all of the work. Yesterday I sat down during the performance and realized that apart from that five minutes I spent eating two slices of pizza, I had been standing for the previous seven hours. Then I had to stand up two minutes later and didn't sit down again until I got into the van two hours after that.

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 39:15
Pace: 9:48

Been listening to the Sweeping Up at Grebe's mix, from summer 1983. Have you ever had a Summer of 1983? Anyway Covid-Watch Day Two. Wish me luck.

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 82°
Climate: sunny & hot
Mood: relieved
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Sweeping Up at Grebe's Playlist

Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix) - Prince  the Revolution

King of Pain - The Police

Cool Places - Sparks ft. Jane Wiedlin

Don't Change - INXS

Pale Shelter (Long Version) - Tears for Fears

Lawyers In Love - Jackson Browne

Promised You a Miracle (US REMIX) - Simple Minds

Just Got Lucky - Jo Boxers

Hey. Are these "jo boxers"?

Upper body: 30 reps

Core Strength: TBA

Nice run. Beautiful, really. Hot, yes. Just as long as it should be, could have gassed out soon after. Slight pain in my left knee. There are always pains after, I try to mind the ones that happen during the run. Bandage that. Will wear shorts today. That school was so freaking air conditioned, I'm surprised I don't have a cold.

Yes, I know that's not how you get a cold.

Baseline: 185 lbs.

Weight: 174 lbs. (-1.0)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Popcorn does a body good.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream
Lunch: fried chicken pieces, eggplant dip w/pita, fizzy water

Dinner: big iced coffee, popcorn

Evening: beer

Solstice Burning: whiskey, smores (2)

Your man in motion.

Running every other day seems to be working pretty well. The knees are not as sore. 

But my gosh, the camp is exhausting. I mean, it's a good time, we're doing good work with the kids. But I wake up at 5:30 and I just want to go back to sleep. I tried not napping after, to see if I could make it to bedtime so I could drop and have a proper sleep, but on Monday it was impossible, I had wanted to nod off all day. A twenty minute nap became an hour long nap and I was just delirious.

Still did some work on the deck, though. So I guess I'm muscling through.

Muscles!

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 29:29
Pace: 9:30

Watched Andrew McCarthy's Brats documentary last night. Very happy that no one used the term Gen X, not even once.  

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73°
Climate: overcast & hot
Mood: positive
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

"Brats" Playlist

Just Like Heaven - The Cure

Old Time Rock & Roll - Bob Seger

Ride Into the Sun - Lou Reed

Back in the High Life Again - Steve Winwood

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion) - John Parr

Oh Yeah - Yello

Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

Anthony Michael-Hall's people were like, "Keep our client's name out of your filthy mouth."

Upper body: 40 reps 

Core Strength:

   Plank: 60 sec.

   Sit-Ups: 10 

So, today I decided to change it up. Get up earlier and have a run. Maybe that will change my whole deal. At least for today.

Baseline: 185 lbs.

Weight:  175 lbs. (-0-)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, toasted bagel w/lox, cream cheese, tomato, capers

Coffee Break: latte

Lunch: Mac & cheese

Treat: fruit snacks

Dinner: bagel w/sunbutter & applebutter, potato chips, beer

The revolution will not go better with Coke.

"I'll come in again."

Camp is in effect. Maintaining a moderate diet, while also attempting not to succumb to the desire to nap in the afternoon. Yesterday, I provided some long overdue love and affection to the wooden side door. 

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 27:59
Pace: 9:01

160 - 169 BPM Playlist

Digging In the Dirt - Sheryl Crow ft. Peter Gabriel

Across the Room - Odesza ft. Leon Bridges

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty

Maria - Blondie

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron

Tra-La-La - The Banana Splits

Survivor - Destiny's Child

Riot In My Mind - Poison Girls

Dude. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is 181 BPM. I knew there was something wrong there.

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 66°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: better
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Core Strength: 

   Plank: 90 sec.

Baseline: 185 lbs.

Weight: 175 lbs. (-0-)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Breakfast coffee w/cream, fresh fruit, dried fruit sunflower seed w/yogurt & granola

Coffee Break: coffee w/cream

Lunch: ziti w/carrot sauce, lil’ Greek salad

Happy Hour: iced coffee w/brown sugar & cream

Dinner: salisbury steak w/gravy & onions, roasted Brussels sprouts & cauliflower, beer

All I want is to breathe.

Angélique Kidjo
(Mimi Ohio Theatre, 2023)

Camp comes to a close. When I'm in it, I feel it will never end. Then, "pouf" -- it's over. Wednesday was the longest day, but when it was over I thought, hey! That's done. Let's enjoy the last day together.

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 36:27
Pace: 9:06

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 66°
Climate: overcast & cool -- ideal.

Mood: very good

 

Last night we saw Angélique Kidjo perform at the Ohio Theatre, the opening act of the 44th Tri-C Jazz Fest. Yes, I have lived here the entire time and never attended. This year, however, our son is a participant, and we are on board!

I was familiar with Kidjo's voice but her performance and movement is so powerful. She got everyone on their feet, dancing. She also took time between songs to advocate for justice, which was also good.

Five years ago she dropped an album that covered the entirety of the 1980 Talking Heads album Remain In Light. White rock and roll artists have always been appropriating Black American music (have you ever really listened to Mick Jagger? It's actually quite cringe) but in the late 70s there were a number of white "art" rockers who were appropriating not just African American music but African sound and rhythm: Talking Heads, The Police, XTC, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel.

Kidjo took David Byrne's Afrobeat inspired record and reclaimed it for her Benin, and for Africa. Last night she played Crosseyed and Painless and Once In a Lifetime and it was gorgeous.

 

Remain In Light - Angélique Kidjo (2018)

Born Under Punches

Crosseyed and Painless

The Great Curve

Once In a Lifetime

Houses in Motion

Seen and Not Seen

Listening World

The Overload

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: tbd 

Upper body: 10 reps.
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream

Lunch: Turkey on rye w/American cheese, tomato & pickle, Bugles

Second lunch: Bianco slice, garlic pillows, coke

Dinner: no

Treat: salty, caramel truffle ice cream in a sugar cone

Alcohol? Yes, Dortmund

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 170 lbs. (-2.5) 

Goal: 170 lbs.

The summer will be active, but will it be productive? As long as I use this blog to keep track of running, diet and other exercise, should I not keep track of other necessary daily tasks? This blog is a checklist, a reminder. It has been very helpful. The other blog ..?

Reading: yes

Writing: yes

Blog? No

Time to sit back and unwind.

The anxiety I feel leading in camp. The expectations. The emotions. The concentration. It can be wearying. But it’s exciting when it works.

Distance: 1 miles

Duration: 8:57

Route: Haselton Loop 

Temperature: 67°
Climate: overcast & cool

Mood: nice

 

Boy got up early today, not sleeping well. So I proposed a one-miler. Perfect for the day-before-end-of-camp run. Tonight the wife and I are seeing Rufus Wainwright, and after that something every freaking night until the weekend is over. I'm excited. I'm apprehensive.

 
Stretches: 
Abdominals: tbd 

Upper body: tbd
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee with cream, fresh, strawberry, blackberries, raspberry, blueberry, banana with granola and yogurt.

Lunch: pepperoni pizza (1 slice), celery

HappyHour: cherry coke zero

Dinner: hot dog, Boss Dog IPA (2x)

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 172.5 lbs. (-0.5)

Goal: 170 lbs.

What's That Lyric?

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

Promote the hustle because it keeps me thin.

Decisions.

Day two, second week of theater camp. 

So much to do! 

So much to see! 

So many adolescent emotions to experience vicariously!

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 30:54
Pace: 9:58

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 67°
Climate: sunny & humid

Mood: good

Got up a little earlier this morning, to provide more time to run. And yet, what I really want to do is go back to sleep again. I'm looking forward to this week being over. 

Stretches: yes
Plank: 90 sec.

Sit-ups: 20x

Upper body: tbd
Water: yes

Feeling a little sick to my stomach heading out the last two times, running on an empty stomach. That hasn't bothered me recently.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, fresh strawberry, blueberry, banana w/granola & yogurt

Treat: doughnut

Lunch: brisket, turkey & cheese on roll, strawberries

Snack: Haribo cola bottles, pretzel rods (2x) 

Happy Hour: fizzy water

Dinner: Don Corleone Pizza (1 slice), strawberry macadamia salad

Alcohol? No

When doughnuts are offered, you take one.

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 173 lbs. (-2.0)

Goal: 170 lbs.

What's That Lyric?

A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" - De La Soul

Keep coming up with funky ass shit like every single day.

Yesterday I made a camper cry.

Also: Never let yesterday use up today.

Distance: 3.1 miles

Duration: 29:44
Pace: 9:35

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 56°
Climate: sunny & damp

Mood: good

Wednesday! We are halfway through a four-day week of camp. No rain, warmer temps, took a proper 5K run. 

When I have somewhere to be, when I feel pressed, the run can go poorly. Short breath, maybe hurt my legs. I felt myself going to that place when I first started out and made myself aware of it. I brought myself back to the moment, and enjoyed every step as it was happening. No future, just the eternal present.

Guerrilla Years Playlist (1991-1994)

13 Steps Lead Down - Elvis Costello

Big Time Sensuality (Fluke Remix) - Björk

Gin N Juice - Snoop Dog ft. Daz Dillinger

Uh, Zoom, Zip - Soul Coughing

Model - Balanescu Quartet

Constant Craving - k. d. lang

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C Music Factory

Gett Off - Prince & the New Power Generation ft. Eric Leeds

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec.

Upper body: 10 reps.
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, fresh strawberry, blueberry, banana with granola & yogurt 

Lunch: sunbutter & jelly sandwich, carrot sticks

Treat: Grimace Shake (yes)

Happy Hour: old fashioned

Dinner: kielbasa buns (2x), chicken wing, dumplings (2x)

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 173.5 lbs. (-0.5)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Got a new scale. Can't read it.

The way is long.

Distance: 1 mile

Duration: 9:10

Route: one time around the block

Temperature: 50°
Climate: sunny & cool 

Mood: good

Had a headache. Thought of going back to sleep for twenty minutes. Took a run instead. No more headache.

We're ready for this.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec.

Upper body: 10 reps. (2x)
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, fried egg w/fries 

Lunch: nut bar, fruit snacks

Happy Hour: iced coffee w/cream & sugar, flavored almonds & dried cranberries

Dinner: pasta w/kale & black eyed peas

Alcohol: no

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 174 lbs. (-2.0)

Goal: 170 lbs.

What Lyrics Is That?
The Mother We Share - CHVRCHES

Friends and neighbors ... Treat Williams. 

Following the footsteps.

The heat returns, it was already spiking as I ran yesterday morning. I wonder, maybe I will get a Saturday morning Athens run in before we head south for the week. That would be nice.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 28:36
Pace: 9:31
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 80°
Climate: dawn, humid
Mood: very anxious

Stretches: yes

Abdominals: 30 sec. (3x)

Water: yes
Weight: 182 lbs. (-1.5)

Goal: 180 lbs.  

Oof. I can hold off for a week, and then it becomes a mania of irritating hunger. Dinner is like this excuse to eat as much as possible -- carry out is the fucking devil, man.

I can't wait for camp to be over now, it's driving me distracted. The entire run was taken up by trying to figure out how best for this day to run smoothly.

Great run, though. I was surprised. More water, though. More rest.

What's That Lyric?

Spellbound - Siouxsie & the Banshees

When I am unhappy there's nothing that can move me.

Camp days are long. Maybe I should have slept this morning, but I can't run after camp. I'm too exhausted. Yesterday I slept for an hour after camp.

It was raining when I got up, but I sat on the side porch and wrote. The rain subsided with the dawn. Time to get out. No time to dawdle on a camp morning.  

Camp camp camp.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 30:24
Pace: 9:21
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 67°
Climate: cool, humid & damp
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes

Abdominals: no

Water: yes
Weight: 184 lbs. (-0.5)

Goal: 180 lbs.  

Getting there. No pain, easy breathing, some bursts of speed.

1982 Playlist

Sat In Your Lap - Kate Bush

It's Nearly Africa - XTC

She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby

Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant

Don't Pay the Ferryman - Chris de Burgh

The Loved Ones - Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Rock the Casbah - The Clash

Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats

Kiss Off - Violent Femmes

Yeah, there are some songs I can't listen to anymore. (I skipped them.)

Think not now your journey's done.

The Musical Box, 6/12/2022

Theater camp begins today! Can I get the rest I need throughout the week to rise early enough to take a run? It is a question and a good one. I am not going to track my diet for the time being, it's become a mania. I am hoping being on my feet all day will help.

Distance: 3.25 miles
Duration: 30:34
Pace: 9:24
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 63°
Climate: dawn & humid
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes

Abdominals: no

Water: yes
Weight: 184.5 lbs. (-2.0)

Achievement Unlocked: 185 lbs.  

New Goal: 180 lbs.

We're in the homestretch! Only six more playlists for the year.

Also? Bought a new phone strap. It's a little big, though.

1972 Playlist

Watcher of the Skies - Genesis

All Down the Line - The Rolling Stones

Roadrunner - Modern Lovers

Walk On the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Hot Rod Lincoln - Commodore Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Jungle Fever - The Chakachas

She Cracked - Modern Lovers

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

New armband ROCKS.

Like a rainbow.

Some kids sign their camp shirts.
This kid brought a flag.

Theater camp is closed for the season, Lear is in its fourth week. The summer begins officially.

One twenty minute session at the gym doesn't seem like much, but the effects of that go-round were felt in my run on Thursday and even this morning, before my run, I feel the tension.

There has been so much rain, yesterday and today feel like living on different planet as the sun is shining and the climate is, so far, cool and sweet.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 24:31
Pace: 8:10
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 65°
Climate: sunny & bright
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Water: yes

Podrunner: Teenage Kicks - Pride Edition! on The Current
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Praying for Time - George Michael
Save Me * - Queen
Is It Really So Strange - The Smiths
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Talkin' Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper

From 8:00-10:00 AM on Saturdays (Central Time) The Current program "Teenage Kicks" plays an upbeat mix of happy tunes from the 70s, 80s and 90s to put a wistful smile on the faces of their largely Generation X demographic.

I mean, they could play the exact same mix for any hour during the week and no one would notice the difference, except for the noticeable absence of inscrutable, atonal white men like Father John Misty and Boney Vere.

This morning I had the opportunity to time it just right and get in a run while Kicks was live (between 9 - 11 Eastern Time) and today was treated to an edition focusing on LGBTQ+ artists.

This week at camp there were numerous young people in attendance who were open about their identities, to this middle aged man growing up in the suburbia rancid with the kind of homophobia represented in every 80s teen comedy, it was very emotionally reassuring. The kids are all right.

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Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 167 lbs. (-0.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.

You run to the store for quick relief.

Upstart Mechnicals Improv Club

One week of camp down. Last night's performance of King Lear was off the chain (and isn't that an odd sentence.) Stayed out, rose late, and yet -- time for a brief run.

These are brief run days. I will need to make some sacrifices in the near future.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 25:01
Pace: 8:20
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature:
Climate: overcast, cool, with light spotting (i said it)
Mood: determined
Water: no!

Totally forgot to drink any water, at all, before going out. Luckily it was not a problem -- today. Adding that to my checklist. A little rushed this morning, the kids have their culminating Heights Music Camp performance. But it was a brisk, cool run. Cool, but sweaty.

1979 Playlist
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
My Sharona - The Knack
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
She's Lost Control (Peel Sessions) - Joy Division
Rapper's Delight (12" Version) - The Sugarhill Gang
Even the Losers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 167.5 lbs. (-2.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

Until the ocean covers every mountain high.

Good morning.

Today would be for either cross training or rest, but as I did not run on Monday, today I ran instead.

Rose at 5:00 am, as a nice change of pace, to write. It has been a while. rather than free writing, I used this time to gather my thoughts from the other night's reading of the marathon play. This will eventually become a blog post.

Distance: 3 miles
Duration: 25:06
Pace: 8:22
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 57°
Climate: no clouds, cool
Mood: positive

What a glorious morning, just as the sun was rising. End of the century tunes, cool and trouble-free. my body feels great. No pain (okay, slight pain, left hip, that's not going away, ever) clear head, strong, light, moving easy strides, things are going very well on day two.

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1999 Playlist
Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65
Machete - Moby
Thursday's Child - David Bowie
As - George Michael ft. Mary J. Blige
The Carpet Crawlers 1999 - Genesis
Cups - Underworld

Camp is also going well, in our quadrant, after two days. Energetic, enthusiastic participants, most of whom are returning after several years. That must mean we are doing something right.

Baseline: 179.5 lbs.
Today: 171 lbs. (+2.0)
Goal: 165 lbs.

That would be the Doritos.

I need a moment to deliberate.

Welcome home.

Long week already, and its only Tuesday. Made a girl cry at camp. I am a terrible human being, and I have no idea what this play is that I am trying to write.

I want to take a nap, but it is six in the evening. So instead I will run.

I need new shoes.

Distance: 3.31 miles
Pace: 8:39
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 76°
Climate: hot & beautiful
Mood: bad

Also, I am a fucking terrible father. I want this day to end.

Stretches: yes

Baseline: 178 lbs.
Today: 163 lbs. (-0-)
Goal: 160 lbs.

What's That Lyric?
Uninvited - Freemasons