Last week I continued my 2022 Not Dead Yet Comeback Special with another 25.5 miles in my feet to bring my 4-week total to 92.6 miles, with at least 85 of those miles coming via hikes in the woods.
Yeah, yeah, that’s a long way away from my endurance mountain biking days or daily 30-mile road rides on my bike, but I’m happier than I’ve been in a couple of years (as are my chamois bits), and those hikes combined with recent changes to my diet (not eating hoagies and pizza twice a day and washing it down with IPAs) has me feeling the faint nudges of fitness in my down belows. And at 51 years old, I’ll take anything I can get.
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The week ahead looks cold and wet in the woods, and I am looking forward to all of it!
PRE-BREAKFAST SIDE NOTE:
Wifey: I’m doing video calls for work this morning, so could you not pee in the bathroom next to the office?
Me: Why, can you hear through the wall?
Wifey: Yes, when I do video calls.
Me: So, should I not shit there either?
Wifey: ESPECIALLY THAT!
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Today’s shots were taken during hikes at the tail-end of last week.
Later.
SOILED SOUNDS TRACK OF THE POST:
A Giant Dog are an amazing mix of punk, indie, glam, and sleazy art-house turned barroom rock and roll. I discovered them about five years ago, and their tracks have found their way onto my playlists and into my earholes ever since.
I love it when a band or a track can make an old-head like me feel like I’m a teenager again; stoked to find new music to play loud, sing along with and drive my parents crazy with. And A Giant Dog does just that.
Today’s track is from their 2012 album, Fight, which apparently was recently reissued in 2022.