escapism (and my album)

28 days of running 10km every day. a distance of over 6 marathons in 4 weeks. i am almost at day 30 which means… my album is basically here (friday). 

i’ve had a lot of time to reflect on why i did this challenge. i don’t know if i fully know, to be honest. the obvious element is marketing, i wanted a way to talk about the record without being annoying. a different way to countdown without a literal countdown.

i wrote another post titled “am i doing enough?” it’s also a response to that. in some way i wanted to escape that feeling. i’m not sure if it solved that, i think i will always feel that way. i think that’s just part of who i am. but in a way, it did free up my brain to just have a daily thing to work on, something to take me out of my head, away from doomscrolling, and push myself into just creating. the repetition was hard at times, but also rewarding in a different way. i looked forward to sleeping each night. i felt accomplished.

thirdly, my album is called i, sabotage. i really wanted to be that in a public way. similar to a sports coach who runs the laps with the players, i wanted to live the core message of what this record is about. we all have shit we think we can’t do, but we can, we just have to get out of our own way and not let that self-sabotaging voice win. corny as it sounds… that shit is real.

i hope you enjoy the album. it drops friday. 

please listen front to back if you have the time.

and a few vinyls are left.

-felix

ps: some benefits from the challenge: way faster at video editing, sleep has improved 10x, heart rate way lower while i run, screen time down. hell ya.