adding on...

Just another run. I'm not really sure that it was just another run 'cause I'm not backing off. To be able to continuously run 26.2 miles is a semi-goal of mine so each time out that I go a little longer is important. Should I never achieve the accomplishment of running a marathon that'll be no big whoop to me, no disappointment whatsoever. Running is still healthy, even if it's just ten minutes a day. In any case, I'm pushing onward...

70 minutes on the trail

running time -- 11 minutes, 22 seconds (up 21 seconds)

post-Veruca Salt:

Nina Gordon -- Tonight And The Rest Of My Life (2000)

Badway
New Year's Eve
Black And Blonde
Tonight And The Rest Of My Life
Now I Can Die
Number One Camera
Horses In The City
The End Of The World
Hold On To Me
Too Slow To Ride
Fade To Black
Got Me Down
Hate Your Way
2003
+
Mason's Children
High Time -- Henry Kaiser, Bob Bralove, Tom Constanten

Good stuff. What a voice! I remember well the great mid-90's song Seether by Veruca Salt. Since then I haven't heard any more by them and never even knew about Nina Gordon until very recently. She hasn't quickly risen to the ranks of my favorite non-Dead music but I'll definitely dload her again.

Pretending

Back on the trail again! And today's run it appears I may have reached a milestone, sort of. Prior to officially keeping track of runs, I might've had five or six and with those, right through to a couple days ago, immediately following each run, right after I stop moving, I'd stop dead in my tracks, half bend over with hands on knees, half dead and deeply breathing and so, so thankful my jog had come to its end. In that position I'd stay for only two or three seconds, not long, but it was always a needed thing in order to help recover from the semi-torture I had just put myself through.

But this evening I had no moment like that. Nothing. When I ended my run I kept moving, walking slowly down the trail. No need to stop! I noticed it instantly. Excelling I am.

But if only I knew how far I run. Definitely, probably, I'm feelin' about 97-99% sure it's over a mile. Perhaps a mile and a half? That might be wishful thinking there. To drive a car along the route to check on the odometer is something that just can't be done. Ain't about to buy a pedometer that won't be accurate. I suppose I just won't know and that's okay for now because I'm running on a trail in the woods and not a roadway or paved footpath. I wouldn't have it any other way!

total time out: about 72 minutes

running time -- 8 minutes, 50 seconds (another 22 seconds up from previous run)

tunes:

Pretenders -- self-titled debut album (1980)

Up The Neck
Precious
The Wait
Lovers Of Today
Tattooed Love Boys
Private Life
Space Invader
The Phone Call
Stop Your Sobbing
Mystery Achievement
Brass In Pocket
Kid
+
Walking Blues -- Bonnie Raitt
Cold Rain & Snow -- Henry Kaiser
I Know You Rider, Going Down The Road Feeling Bad -- David Cullen
&
Touch of Grey -- Grateful Dead
(undated live version from Brent era . . .
off the album San Francisco for a Sustainable Future a.k.a. For Young People)

The debut album from the Pretenders has got to be one of the best albums ever! Five or ten best? Top 25? No way but Top 100 or perhaps Top 250. Almost perfection. Shed a song or two and then what a tremendous collection of post-punk/new wave/rock & roll. Excellent stuff!