bike: 25 minutes
run: 1.4 miles
basement
outside: -5 degrees / feels like -10
I have run in colder weather than -5, but I was not interested in going out there today. Do I regret it? I don’t think so, but . . . . While I biked I watched some track races from the Paris Olympics, and while I ran I listened to the Apple Music “Feel Good” playlist. Listening to a different version of this playlist earlier in the week helped the run to go by faster, but the songs weren’t quite as motivating today. Had to skip through several of them until Rio by Duran Duran came on. Next: Rosanna/Toto, then Brandy/Looking Glass, then as I walked Afternoon Delight/Starland Vocal Band. That last one, wow. I don’t remember thinking about much as I ran. I remember imagining myself falling off of the treadmill. I wondered what song would come on next. I tried to lift out of my hips. I debated if Rosanna was a “feel good” song. And now that I think about it, Brandy as feel good? It’s sad. When Afternoon Delight came on I thought about Anchorman and Glee and wondered how anyone would not get what this song was about.
I memorized Wallace Stevens’ “Tattoo” and was planning to recite it while I biked and ran but then I forgot.
One-line poems, and/or poem starters:
Edgar Allen Poe,
exercise enthusiast.
Sara doing Sara things.
A shadow
crosses.
The tree outside
my window.