Here's my 21st consecutive run of 2025. I didn't push today. I felt a twinge in my left knee before I set out, and while this faded after a few minutes, I felt it best to stick to a recovery run rather than risk damage. I also followed one of my alternate routes which involves a lot of pavement work (sidewalks) so care must be taken.
Today's musical accompaniment was the brutal, fabulous "Beaster" EP by the band Sugar, which I bought on CD from a record shop near Grand Central Station during a visit to New York in 1993. It's 30:51 long so ideal for a 5K, although not at today's leisurely pace. My MP3 player finished with Beaster and then started on "Copper Blue", the full-length Sugar album which came out the year before the EP. I saw the band live around that time in the Netherlands, although that's about all I remember. Sugar's Bob Mould had been in Hüsker Dü (from which I appropriated the name "Huskers" for the adversaries in the Merlin stories) before releasing a couple of solo albums in 1989 and 1990. Sugar released another album in 1994 and then Bob Mould went off on another solo tangent. He's a great artist and I ought to reconnect with his work.
Cheers, Al R
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