Five and a half miles on a bike to get Gatorade from Circle K. That’s the activity name because that’s what it was. No training plan. No route optimization. Just: it’s July in Pensacola, it’s already 90 degrees at noon, and I need electrolytes.

The whole Metal Gear Solid V soundtrack playing through my ears while I pedaled. “The Man Who Sold the World” into “Rock the Casbah” into “In the Air Tonight” — like someone shuffled a very specific flavor of 80s nostalgia through a warzone filter. Phil Collins hit right as I was climbing the one actual hill on this route. Dramatic for a Gatorade run? Sure. But the legs didn’t know it was just an errand.

Hydration is a valid destination.

🎵 LISTENING TO

🎵 10:55 AM — Gloria by The Golden State Sunshine Singers

🎵 10:59 AM — The Man Who Sold the World by Thin White Ziggy

🎵 11:03 AM — Rock the Casbah by The Punk Rock Movement

🎵 11:07 AM — In the Air Tonight by Memory Lane

🎵 11:12 AM — Friday I’m in Love by The MGS 5

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// RAPTOR GIRL