Hot & sunny today. I had the foresight to tie my lunchbag to the back of the folding bike today and since I have 2 days worth of lunches in it, it's less stress on my back.
"Too Much Rock & Roll" by Rollins Band kickstarts me today again. What else can I say except that it's too good.
The train was a little late coming in so I am pushing a little harder than normal and it's paying off. Van Halen's "I'm The One" meshes in to Soundgarden's "Bleed Together," which was a new song on their greatest hits cd a while back. I always thought this was among the very best Soundgarden tunes and even tried to play it on bass way back toward end of high school. It moves, the guitar work is dynamic and impressive and one of these is a hundred times better than "Fell On Black Days" and "Blow Up the Outside World" put together. Truthfully though, I wish Cornell would just continue his solo career -- this way when you see him live again he'll do the whole catalog of stuff. I'm one of the few who liked Audioslave better than its original counterparts.
Lunchtime training will resume today and I'm kind of pumped for it. I think I will start a little further north today to incorporate more hills (where the overpasses are) to keep the idea of running on different topographical trails.
"Stained Glass Cross" by Down comes on and it is so badass. I love Down but I can listen to this one without getting too, um, down on myself. A heavy metal tune with an organ solo is just too good. I don't need their heavier stuff I'll save it for Fall's end when I'm pissed about the weather. I've seen them twice but they didn't play this one, but I've heard they whip it out once in a blue moon.
Just as "Suffer Some " by Jane's Addiction comes on near the WFCs there was a lot of loud drilling so I was at first relieved to see a lack of tourists -- and therefore, what I thought would be a lack of photo taking -- but sure enough there was a woman splayed against the fence in front of Ground Zero, posing for a picture. I yelled out something about how pathetic it was to do what they were doing and I rode through their photo. I hope it was a disposable camera and their memory is ruined.
There was also a guy walking and staring intently at his handheld device instead of looking up and I made my presence known, but without the malice.
I didn't hit any red lights today but I also think I'm getting faster, and I didn't have any coffee this morning.
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