Bikram Yoga 60 Day Challenge

That's me in the back, not the guy.

Here's the official report:

It's day 7 and I feel great!
I'm on spring intersession now so it's not hard to make the time to go to yoga, nor am I stressed out and annoyed to the point that I just want to go home and drink beer after school. I'm drinking plenty of water and I'm forging ahead. I feel like last year, while trying to do the 30 day challenge, around this time I had already begun to feel the wear and tear of a daily practice. However, this time around I feel much stronger.

Along with the 60 consecutive days of yoga, i am also taking off about 40-50 days from running. Not running has been interesting. It's been two weeks since the horrid Tobacco Road Debacle Marathon, also marking two weeks since I last ran. I miss running. I fantasize about putting my shoes on and just heading out the door- going until I want to stop. But, strangely, or maybe not so strangely, I feel grateful for the forced opportunity to take a break from running. It will afford me a greater a appreciation for my running practice and I look forward to that. Sometimes in order to truly reflect upon something, you must step away, gain perspective and assess the full picture. It's also an interesting experiment in my running fitness: how will it feel to not run for a over a month? Will I lose all of my training? Will 3 miles feel like 5, 5 like 7, and 7 like a marathon? Will my form and breath change? Will I be stronger? Weaker?

Only time will tell.


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Swamplandia! Revisited

An awesome portrayal by Sara Lautman of Ava and and the Bird Man on their odyssey like quest through the swamp in search of the underworld.

Shower Beer!!

I'm not quite sure who coined the term. I feel as though I may have first heard it several years ago in Vermont with Kurt and Alex Beschorner. But, perhaps this is a widely known practice and nomenclature. Anthropologists, I smell some relevant research...

The shower beer is ideal for:

-post run showers when one cannot wait to imbibe
-pre going somewhere instances where, again, why wait?
-drinking the last beer in secrecy, so loved ones do not know it was you (hey, where'd that last beer go?)
-just adding a little spice to your boring old routine

Other terms for shower beer may include "getting' ready drinky" and "waiting wine".

Shower beer. If you're not doing it, why wait?


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The Radio?!

So, since moving to Durham and now residing 5 minutes from school, I no longer have the Privilege of the Commute.  The Privilege of the Commute is this: 20 minutes of uninterrupted me time with the jams, coffee, podcasts, or just silence if you so desire.  Now, I've started listening to the radio. 

I know, GASP! 

And, I've got news for you, the radio is every bit as annoying as I remember it to be.  Laugh-rambling douchey DJs, horrible music, and ads ads ads.  Every now and then you'll find a little gem of a song right as you pull into work.  You'll sit in the car and close your eyes, and for a moment, you won't be in the parking lot of an elementary school.  No, you'll be somewhere else entirely.  Somewhere totally awesome.
Today it was Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride. 

Indeed, Steppenwolf, indeed.

So we meet again...

Yes, the pollen is here. Yes, I am taking some forced time off of running because of it. Yes, I'm sure I'll still feel like a loser for not running even though I can't unless I want to look like I got stung by a tracker jacker. Yes, I'll be supplanting with a 60 day Bikram yoga challenge. Yes, I know my hair will be wet for 60 days straight. Yes, I did 30 days last year, and yes, 60 is 30 doubled.

Read This!

Whoever you are, you need to read this hilarious take on something I'm sure we all struggle with. With which we all struggle...Or with whom we all struggle...I don't know...whatever!

Read it!



How to Bring Your Lunch to Work


Thank you, Hair Pin

The Yellow Cloud

It's either going to be the title of my next album or the thing hanging over Durham right now resulting from a mixture of fog-smog and pollen.

You decide.