CULT OF JAMES

Second walk of August 22nd. Ten PM. Shorter this time — 0.63 miles, fifteen minutes, the kind of walk where the sun is gone and the air is finally something you can breathe instead of wear. Heart rate higher than the afternoon walk, though. Avg 125, maxed at 143. Moving a little faster, or maybe just carrying whatever the day…

Two walks in one day. This is the first one — late afternoon, 0.86 miles, the longest I’d gone on foot in a while. Twenty-nine-minute pace, which is slow, but it’s almost a full mile and that matters more than the speed. August 22nd. The kind of day where you go out once and then go out again later because…

Half a mile. Seventeen minutes. August in Pensacola, late afternoon, when the heat isn’t breaking so much as settling in for the evening shift. This is not a workout. This is getting up, going outside, walking to the end of something and back. Thirty-five-minute mile pace, which is the speed of someone who is moving because stillness felt worse. Heart…