It was incredibly difficult to roll out of bed at five-fifteen this morning, but I did. It’s been (very uncharacteristically) raining for several days in Los Angeles and it was just a wet, dark, miserable morning for a run. But about two miles into it and I started to feel better, and by the time I hit five miles I was loose and cruising.
I was positively drenched with sweat and rain after about fifteen minutes. My t-shirt felt like it weighed twenty pounds. I was very happy to notice that my knee didn’t bother me at all. I didn’t even think of it until I had hit ten miles, and then only because I realized it wasn’t hurting.
I just finished a 13.3 mi run with a pace of 9'46"/mi with Nike+ Running. http://t.co/JE4okDtX #nikeplus
— David Vincent Gagne (@davidgagne) December 3, 2012
And how cool is this? The official @NikeLA account gave me a shout-out for hitting my 3750 Fuel Points goal every day last week:
Move to green. @davidgagne goes 7-for-7 and reaches his goal. http://t.co/NkVvnyOR Start your streak today.
— Nike LA (@NikeLA) December 3, 2012
Here was the soundtrack for this morning’s run:
- Numb / Encore (live) (featuring Linkin Park) — Jay-Z
- The Dirty Glass — Dropkick Murphys
- She’s My Baby — Traveling Wilburys
- I Try to Think About Elvis — Loveless, Patty
- Timebomb (live) — Old 97’s
- Holiday — Green Day
- Lose Yourself — Eminem
- Alcohol — Barenaked Ladies
- Fortunate Son — Creedence Clearwater Revival
- When You Were Young — Killers, The
- Los Angeles — Sugarcult
- Runnin’ Down a Dream — Petty, Tom
- End of the Line — Traveling Wilburys
- Remember the Name — Fort Minor
- C’mon C’mon — Von Bondies, The
- Head On — Pixies
- Somewhere Across Forever — Stellastarr*
- No Sleep Tonight — Faders, The
- Viva la Vida — Coldplay
- Minority — Green Day
- The Last Song — Foo Fighters
- How You Like Me Now — Heavy, The
- Mutt — blink-182
- Devil With the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly — Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
- …Baby One More Time — Spears, Britney
- Give the Po’ Man a Break — Fatboy Slim
- Get Free — Vines, The
- Surrender — Angels & Airwaves
- Folding Chair — Spektor, Regina
- One Week — Barenaked Ladies
- From a Buick 6 — Dylan, Bob
- A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me” — Fall Out Boy
- Duel of the Fates — Williams, John
- All These Things That I’ve Done — Killers, The
- See You Again — Cyrus, Miley