Early Morning Long Run

It's been a while since I got up this early to run, but I got out just after 6 this morning, and it was quite nice. I was alone, so I had some tunes, and went farther than I've been going, and all that slow running has slowed me down a bit.  I went up Gay all the way to Glenn, and then back down College to the Art Museum and back.  All together, exactly 6 miles.

Playlist	Peter Tosh
Crystal Ball	from "Mystic Man"
No Sympathy	from "Legalize It"
Reggaemyelitis	from "Wanted Dread and Alive"
Glasshouse	from "Mama Africa"
Equal Rights	from "Equal Rights"
Coming In Hot	from "Wanted Dread and Alive"
I'm the Toughest	from "Bush Doctor"
Rastafari Is	from "Wanted Dread and Alive"
Burial	from "Legalize It"
Till Your Well Runs Dry	from "Legalize It"

Distance 6.0 miles
Cumulative distance 25.74 mi
Time 51:40 min
Pace 8:36 min/mi

Balmy run to Toomer's

I decided I'm not going to run the Callaway Gardens Half Marathon, even though I think I could do back to back Halfs. Pride precedes a fall, so they say. I did have a big fat blister on my right foot, which I opted to reduce right away, rather than wait for it, which I what I learned in the Boy Scouts. Tonight it was balmy after a big rain, about 63 F, and I opted to run up to Toomer's and back. Felt good most of the time. The Map My Route app was being wonky, so I didn't use it tonight.

Playlist
The Goose	Parliament
Big Time	Peter Gabriel
Orange	Meat Puppets
(I Love It When You) Call Me Names	Joan Armatradding
Slavedriver	Jenny & Johnny
Jump In The Line	Harry Belafonte
Bring It On	Gomez
Atomic Dog	George Clinton
Black Hole Sun	Soundgarden
Cantique	Kanda Bongo Man
Dadje Von O Von Non	Gnonnas Pedro & Ses Dadjes

Times
L1	12:06
L2	6:04
L3	5:51
L4	11:11
L5	3:15
L6	10:48
L7	0:49
Total	50:05

Distance 5.6 miles

Cumulative distance 36.5 miles

Night moves

No, I'm not suddenly down with Bob Seger. I just went on another nighttime run; a variation on the GWCToomer's route, tacking on enough to make it just over 6 miles. I turned on Samford and went up Armstrong, which I haven't done in a long while, and at the end I went around the block a bit to add the last 0.37. It's just warm enough out there, hopefully Fall will be upon us soon.

Playlist -Grungey
Les Yper-Sound -Stereolab
Breed -Nirvana
Devil's Haircut -Beck
On A Plain -Nirvana
Nothing -Meat Puppets
Scum -Meat Puppets
Use Somebody -Kings of Leon
Blanket of Weeds -Meat Puppets
The Sky Is Fallin' -Queens of the Stone Age
Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts -Funkadelic
Superunknown -Soundgarden
Flaming Heart -Meat Puppets

Times
L1 13:00
L2 6:26
L3 7:20
L4 6:18
L5 6:45
L6 3:33
L7 12:15
L8 1:50
L9 0:59
Total 58:27

Distance 6.0 miles
Cumulative 31.1 miles. Getting close again.

Postscript: I think blogger is running some kind of cuckoo clock, it's actually 11pm, not 8:47

Back in Sweat Home Alabama

And I do mean sweat. It's been muggy and hot, though not as hot as a lot of other places in the southeast where it's been totally unbearable. I've been off partly because of sloth and fear of melting into a puddle of saline ooze, and partly because of work and no childcare and temporary single-parenting and baseball addiction.

However, tonight is the last night of summer vacation for my girls, and I felt I was overdue for a run, which I am now, so I doffed my shirt and hit the road after the last out of the Red Sox-Twins, which coupled with the Yankees loss means happy good news for me, though a late start for a long run.

I ran to Toomer's, which was pretty quiet this time of night on a Tuesday between semesters, so now I'm pretty well back on track for the time being, except I don't think I should do all of it in large chunks like that (large for me, 5+ miles).

Playlist
Dirty Water -the Standells
Honky Tonk Women -the Rolling Stones
I Lost It -Lucinda Williams
Big Time -Peter Gabriel
I Zimbra -Talking Heads
Bust a Move -Young MC
Caught Up In You -.38 Special
Black Country Rock -David Bowie
Way Over Yonder In the Minor Key -Billy Bragg and Wilco
Party in the USA -Miley Cyrus
Search and Destroy -Iggy Pop
Ruby -Kaiser Chiefs
Emperor Tomato Ketchup -Stereolab
Wow and Flutter -Stereolab

Times
L1 12:29
L2 6:18
L3 5:58
L4 4:57
L5 6:39
L6 3:32
L7 11:29
L8 0:54
Total 52:15

Distance 5.6 miles
Cumulative 11.0 miles

Muggy but nicer

It's a bit overcast and it might rain shortly, which is good because we need rain. The temperature is down a bit, but the humidity is quite high. I got off to a good start and decided to go down to Toomer's Corner and back, the ol' 5.6 mile route. And it's our Wedding Anniversary, yay!

Playlist -A nice one, seemed to flow well.
Take Me Away -Ween
Cut -Minutemen
China Girl -David Bowie
Highway to Hell -AC/DC
Celebration Day -Led Zeppelin
Buk-In-Hamm Palace -Peter Tosh
Loser -Beck
Cobbler -Meat Puppets
The Gnome -Pink Floyd
It's Up To You -the Specials
The Day I Tried To Live -Soundgarden
It's Summertime -Flaming Lips
Meanwhile Rick James... -CAKE
Nappy Dugout -Funkadelic

Times
L1 12:23
L2 6:31
L3 6:11
L4 4:49
L5 6:38
L6 3:34
L7 11:16
L8 0:48
Total 52:11

Distance 5.6 miles
Cumulative distance 28.5 miles

I hate to have to walk, but I guess not as much as I hate to hurt myself for foolish gains. Today I ran the GWCToomers route, backwards, and was experiencing some left knee pain as I came down the hill from the Art Museum. I walked the 0.1 mile to the stop sign and started up again, only to walk up from Town Creek to the next street (about 0.2 miles). The ending felt okay, but I'll have to see how it goes. I'm awfully close to my goal for the month, with about a week to spare, so I don't need to do anything stupid. It's only getting hotter though, and once my kids get out of school (tomorrow) I'll have to adjust my running schedule.

Playlist
Slavedriver -Jenny and Johnny
Turn It On -Flaming Lips
Use Somebody -Kings of Leon
Rock Problems -the Hold Steady
We're Here -Meat Puppets
The Man Who Sold The World -David Bowie
Notion -Kings of Leon
White Girl -X
Jane Says -Jane's Addiction
Mexican Radio -Wall of Voodoo
What New York Used to Be -the Kills
Profanity Prayers -Beck
Rock & Roll -Lou Reed
Where It's At -Beck
Paranoid -Black Sabbath
Superunknown -Soundgarden

Times
L1 13:12
L2 6:37
L3 6:17
L4 5:23
L5 6:59
L6 4:37
L7 13:39
L8 0:52
Total 57:36

Distance 5.6 (-0.3 walking) = 5.3 miles
Cumulative distance 37.9 miles

Back to Toomer's

Another nighttime jaunt. Finally made it back up to 5.6 miles, all the way up to Toomer's and back. Felt pretty good, most of the way. A little back tightness, a little calf tightness, but over all, it felt good. I'm glad to be halfway back to 10 miles. Hopefully this bodes well for the Tough Ten.

Playlist
Gimme Shelter -Rolling Stones
Fish, Chips and Sweat -Funkadelic
Queen Bitch -David Bowie
Clampdown -the Clash
In This House That I Call Home -X
To Kingdom Come -the Band
Come As You Are -Nirvana
Sissyneck -Beck
Paranoid -Black Sabbath
Heroes -David Bowie
Wow and Flutter -Stereolab
Mexican Radio -Wall of Voodoo
Buckingham Green -Ween
Seven Nation Army -White Stripes
Ruby -Kaiser Chiefs

Times
L1 13:39
L2 3:44
L3 12:46
L4 5:59
L5 6:25
L6 11:55
L7 0:55
Total 55:23

Distance: 5.6 miles
Cumulative distance: 10.9 miles

More days off. Feeling beat up

Another few days off. Sunday I went up to Lake Martin with the girls and some friends. It was fun, but in spite of frequent application of sunscreen, I got sunburned about the head and shoulders. Also got a cut on my foot, and a scrape on my knee. So I was feeling pretty beat up.
Today was the first day I really felt up to the challenge of physical activity. My foot felt better, and without my shirt, my skin felt all right as well. Another nighttime run, up to Toomer's and back. Instead of cutting in at Briarwood as I usually do, I ran down to Tanglewood and in to add a few feet.

Playlist
Dirty Water -the Standells
Alone + Easy Target -Foo Fighters
African -Peter Tosh
Sympathy for the Devil -Rolling Stones
Wow and Flutter -Stereolab
What a Day That Was -Talking Heads
Mexican Radio -Wall of Voodoo
Fell in Love With a Girl -White Stripes
Unfinished Instrumental -Parliament
Electricity(Drugs) -Talking Heads
Gin and Juice -Snoop Dogg
Wanted Dread and Alive -Peter Tosh
Gangsta Gangsta -N.W.A.

Times
L1 12:25
L2 3:20
L3 11:31
L4 6:52
L5 6:00
L6 12:05
L7 0:45
Total 52:59

Distance 5.8 miles
Cumulative distance 35.5. Probably not getting to 20/100.

Night time is the right time

First time out at night with the flashlight and no sunglasses. It was a bit muggy but nice out. I got a good pace going and kept it up. I was with the girls all day and stayed up to watch the Tim Wakefield and the Sox beat the Tribe, 3-2. Of course the top baseball story of the day was RHP Steve Strasburg, who lived up to the hype leading up to his first MLB start. 14 strikeouts!

I ran the GWCToomer's route, cutting over to Armstrong to add 0.2 miles. The new shoes are starting to feel good, and the night time does seem to be the right time, at least in the summer months.

Playlist
Dirty Water -the Standells
For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) -AC/DC
Hang On St. Christopher -Tom Waits
Alabama Song -the Doors
What Is Life -George Harrison
Fire -Jimi Hendrix
Safe European Home -the Clash
Little Sister -Queens of the Stone Age
Pearl's Cafe -the Specials
The New Pollution -Beck
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On -Funkadelic
The Next Episode -Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
Doin' It -Professor Longhair
When Doves Cry -Prince
Oye Como Va -Santana
Times
L1 13:07
L2 3:27
L3 11:57
L4 7:12
L5 6:04
L6 11:14
L7 0:48
Total 53:49

Distance 5.8 miles
Cumulative distance 26.2 (!)

P to Z and back to V

Same route as yesterday, only reversed at Gay/Woodfield, i.e. up Gay to Magnolia, and down College from Toomer's. A bit tougher today, even though I hit the uphills earlier on. Probably latent fatigue from yesterday. Feeling a little numb in my right arm and hand. Did I sleep on it funny? Perhaps.

Playlist (P-->Z and back up)
Pink Eye (On My Leg) -Ween
Queen Bitch -David Bowie
Run (I'm a Natural Disaster) -Gnarls Barkley
Seven Nation Army -White Stripes
Today -Smashing Pumpkins
Universal Corner -X
Veronica -Elvis Costello
The W.A.N.D. -Flaming Lips
Xtabenium -Acme Rocket Quartet
You Can't Catch Me -Chuck Berry
Ziggy Stardust -David Bowie
Zimbabwe -Bob Marley
You're Wondering Now -the Specials
X-Static -Foo Fighters
Wow and Flutter -Stereolab
Voodoo Lady -Ween

Times
L1 13:03
L2 6:37
L3 6:21
L4 12:01
L5 3:37
L6 11:54
L7 0:58
Total 54:31. A little slower than yesterday.

Distance 5.6
Cumulative Distance 15.8

Alpha Beta Parking Lot

What a difference it makes going out a little earlier. I left around 9, rather than close to noon. Maybe also a second consecutive day helped as well, in any event I felt a lot better out there today. Not quite as strong an urge to stop and walk, not feeling like death on two legs afterwards. Tired, but not wiped out. I was able to go further today as well, all the way up to Toomer's Corner, adding a mile to yesterday's route.
Route -Gay, Woodfield, College, Toomer's Magnolia, Gay

Playlist (Alphabet Soup A-->P)
Alpha Beta Parking Lot -Cake
Bacteria -Jonathan Coulton
C.R.E.A.M. -Wu Tang Clan meets the Beatles
Dixie Chicken -Little Feat
Elevator Music -Beck
Fat Lenny -Ween
Gamma Ray -Beck
Head Down -Soundgarden
I Feel Fine -Beatles
Just a Test -Beastie Boys
Kye Kye Pe Aware -Sweet Talks
Lady Day and John Coltrane -Gil Scott-Heron
Manteca -Dizzy Gillespie
Never to Be Found -Meat Puppets
One Drop -Bob Marley
Pink Eye (On My Leg) -Ween

Times
L1 12:54
L2 3:26
L3 11:59
L4 6:07
L5 6:10
L6 11:40
L7 0:55
Total 53:12

Distance 5.6 miles
Cumulative Distance 10.2 miles