CIM: Wherein I didn't quite chase down the 3:10 pace group but chased down the ghosts of 2023 👻

Morning Run: Cow Hollow loop

Afternoon Run: Sandy's 🥪, Hahdough 🥨

Evening Run: WeRunSF - Hyatt Edition

Lunch Run: Bageletto 🥯, Whole Foods 🥗

I've mainly learned the BJ catalogue from listening to hundreds of his live shows. It's hard to fathom this coming out as an album.  The first seven songs are all monumental and live show staples, and even the rollicking track 8 ("Get It Right the First Time") had me wishing it was played live too.  Song notes:

🎵 The epic "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" is in my top 10 songs of all time.

🎵 Favorite wholesome lyric from "The Stranger" with the lovely key change: "Don't be afraid to try again / Everyone goes south every now and then"

🎵 I love how after performing "Just the Way You Are" or "She's Always a Woman", Billy would quip "And then we got divorced." 🤣

Billy Joel was a college dorm favorite.  Anand Raghunathan would always pop out of his dorm room to sing the opening "Anthony works in the grocery store" line of "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)".  Parag Gupta would blast "Pressure" before intramural games to get us pumped up.

Technical notes:

Friday: 5-7pm approximately, 9 miles, late Swensen's 🍦
Saturday: 10:15am-4:45pm approximately, 31 miles, mid-run lunch at Eddie's Cafe 🥚🍞

That's horribly balanced between the two days, but I only finally got around to planning the exact route on Friday and started running too late.  Still it's a minor victory to do it in just under 24 hours elapsed.


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CIM: Wherein I didn't quite chase down the 3:10 pace group but chased down the ghosts of 2023 👻

Morning Run: Cow Hollow loop

Afternoon Run: Sandy's 🥪, Hahdough 🥨

Evening Run: WeRunSF - Hyatt Edition

Lunch Run: Bageletto 🥯, Whole Foods 🥗

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