An Improved Run with Rob
· Run Time -- 11 minutes 57 seconds (+0:19)
__· Temperature: 16º F (-9º C)
__· Total Trail Time: 45 minutes
· Trail Time in November -- 6 hours 1 minute
____(starting Oct. 1)
· Weight Loss Goal -- 24 pounds (11 kg)
__________· So Far -- 8 lb.
Workin' the overnight shift is messin' me up, it's puttin' me a half day behind in some ways. I got out for this run yesterday afternoon, over 12 hours ago. Now at 4:30 in the freakin' morning do I finally have a half hour free to sit down and type. Of course, we could get a call at any second in which case I'd barely have time to Sign out to shut this window down... ahhh well, I'm just gonna gamble that I can hurry up and finish uninterrupted.
Tuesday my run was not very easy.
0 to 10 Hell Scale, all the way up to about a 7.
Yesterday's run, with 19 added seconds: better, about a 3.
Pretty sweet.
Still, I am currently at about 1/20th of my 4 hour marathon goal so I have a loonnnnnnnnng way to go. 1/20th?! Yeah, ridiculous to even calculate. In any case, on the trail yesterday I hit my time with almost no problem whatsoever. Good deal.
Music listened to:
Rob Thomas
...Something To Be
2005
This Is How A Heart Breaks
Lonely No More
Ever The Same
I Am An Illusion
When The Heartache Ends
Something To Be
All That I Am
Problem Girl
Fallin' To Pieces
My, My, My
Streetcorner Symphony
Now Comes The Night
I've never listened to Rob Thomas' band Matchbox 20; maybe I can recognize one tune from them. Then there's the tune that Thomas sings with Carlos Santana that really propelled Thomas to super-stardom... but I couldn't even begin to whistle it or give the title of it.
For the sake of being completely random in picking about half of what I choose to allow into my ears, I decided to give this debut solo album a listen. When I first Pressed Play, mostly unimpressed was the impression I was left with. This is like adult-alternative with no serious edge to it at all. One thought I had during one track -- a male Madonna.
Gave it another listen, I did, and then took it with me on the trail including three tunes to run to... and it's not so bad. A few songs made me feel like they'd be perfect for driving down an interstate highway that's nearly completely empty of other vehicles, no pigs sitting in the median waiting for a speeder and/or an old VW bus, very few billboards, very few exits, about 2 o'clock in the morning, on a freezing night. Ah, but that's just me, the only time I like to be on an interstate highway compared to America's backroads... and certain songs just seem like they'd be perfect and some on this album would be for that. Not all of 'em 'cause a few are rather mellow in a way that would almost put a person to sleep under the right circumstances.
Anyway, after the first listen I thought I'd maybe even dump this album, not even bother to hang onto it, but I might give it another shot or two one of these days.
__· Temperature: 16º F (-9º C)
__· Total Trail Time: 45 minutes
· Trail Time in November -- 6 hours 1 minute
____(starting Oct. 1)
· Weight Loss Goal -- 24 pounds (11 kg)
__________· So Far -- 8 lb.
Workin' the overnight shift is messin' me up, it's puttin' me a half day behind in some ways. I got out for this run yesterday afternoon, over 12 hours ago. Now at 4:30 in the freakin' morning do I finally have a half hour free to sit down and type. Of course, we could get a call at any second in which case I'd barely have time to Sign out to shut this window down... ahhh well, I'm just gonna gamble that I can hurry up and finish uninterrupted.
Tuesday my run was not very easy.
0 to 10 Hell Scale, all the way up to about a 7.
Yesterday's run, with 19 added seconds: better, about a 3.
Pretty sweet.
Still, I am currently at about 1/20th of my 4 hour marathon goal so I have a loonnnnnnnnng way to go. 1/20th?! Yeah, ridiculous to even calculate. In any case, on the trail yesterday I hit my time with almost no problem whatsoever. Good deal.
Music listened to:Rob Thomas
...Something To Be
2005
This Is How A Heart Breaks
Lonely No More
Ever The Same
I Am An Illusion
When The Heartache Ends
Something To Be
All That I Am
Problem Girl
Fallin' To Pieces
My, My, My
Streetcorner Symphony
Now Comes The Night
I've never listened to Rob Thomas' band Matchbox 20; maybe I can recognize one tune from them. Then there's the tune that Thomas sings with Carlos Santana that really propelled Thomas to super-stardom... but I couldn't even begin to whistle it or give the title of it.
For the sake of being completely random in picking about half of what I choose to allow into my ears, I decided to give this debut solo album a listen. When I first Pressed Play, mostly unimpressed was the impression I was left with. This is like adult-alternative with no serious edge to it at all. One thought I had during one track -- a male Madonna.
Gave it another listen, I did, and then took it with me on the trail including three tunes to run to... and it's not so bad. A few songs made me feel like they'd be perfect for driving down an interstate highway that's nearly completely empty of other vehicles, no pigs sitting in the median waiting for a speeder and/or an old VW bus, very few billboards, very few exits, about 2 o'clock in the morning, on a freezing night. Ah, but that's just me, the only time I like to be on an interstate highway compared to America's backroads... and certain songs just seem like they'd be perfect and some on this album would be for that. Not all of 'em 'cause a few are rather mellow in a way that would almost put a person to sleep under the right circumstances.
Anyway, after the first listen I thought I'd maybe even dump this album, not even bother to hang onto it, but I might give it another shot or two one of these days.
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# running,
^ Rob Thomas
