Pantommind’s Progressive Metal Fuels a Good Run

  The Run So this morning I woke up feeling kinda stiff, but I guess that is what you should expect as one approaches 64. I knew that a run was on “my schedule” but so was yoga. I decided that I was going to do my Monday morning routine of Kundalini mixed with some weights and band exercises. As I did those exercises, I started to feel better and better, so thought well just maybe I COULD run!! I also thought it would be pretty bad to extol the virtues of scheduling and then skip a run the second day it’s on my schedule!!  I decided yes I would run!! When I went up to tell my wife that I was going, she was getting out of the shower and she reminded me that she had a doctor’s appointment in about an hour. Doing the math quickly in my head, a thirty-minute run with a short cool down should be doable! I was proud of myself. I had the perfect reason to put off the run, but I knew if I did, I wouldn’t run today!! So off I went! The Results I ran the same course that I ran on Friday. Mainly because it’s  fairly flat and has a decent amount of tree cover. Therefore, it provides the shade I need! The run was not as much of a struggle, as it was the first day. I was able to keep up a fairly steady pace and I felt…

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Life’s Soundtrack – A Decent Run made better by Bulgaria’s Pantommind!

After coming home from food shopping at Trader Joe’s this afternoon, I came within an eyelash of talking myself out of going for a run! I’ve done that successfully for most of April, between long days and knees that really didn’t feel 100%. But I told myself no, you are going to run. I thought maybe if I go to Runner’s World and create a new route then at least it’s different and then I really can’t compare it to familiar runs! So that’s what I did and overall the run was pretty good the first mile was under 10 minutes and overall I averaged about 10:13 minutes per mile, and considering that I haven’t really run that much this month I’m okay with the pace!The soundtrack for the run was the latest album from Pantommind, Shade of Fate. From Prog Archives: PANTOMMIND is a progressive metal band from Gabrovo, Bulgaria originally consisting of “Floyd” Rossen (vocals, guitars), Pete Christ (bass, keyboards), Jiip Randam (guitars, keyboards), Tony Ivan (backing vocals) and Drago (drums, percussion). From 1990 to 1995 the band was known as LAVENDER HAZE and they created some compositions heavily influenced by Queensryche but also included many electronic motives. In 1995, the band recorded a 4 track demo called “Unreality.” Shortly after recording the demo the band changed their name to PANTOMMIND. It appears that over the course of the career membership in the band has continuously change here is the line-up of musicians on this album: Tony Ivan…

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