I’ve been trying to consistently go for a really long run on Monday mornings and a “regular” run on Thursday mornings. I’ve done a pretty good job at it for about three months now; I even managed to get in a five-miler on Thanksgiving.
This morning while coming down Century Park towards Olympic, a man on a bike came towards me wearing a black hoodie and a frighteningly realistic skeleton full-face mask. At six in the morning, just about everyone you see is scary. So you can imagine how much that guy freaked me out.
I also saw a crushed and empty box of Trojan Magnum condoms in front of the “European luxury” hotel on Westwood, and a half-full, uncapped gallon of milk sitting next to a bus bench on Santa Monica.
I just finished a 13.0 mi run with a pace of 9'40"/mi with Nike+ Running. http://t.co/Cp786P5u #nikeplus
— David Vincent Gagne (@davidgagne) November 26, 2012
My right knee was killing me by the time I got back to the house, which concerns me. It seems that about twelve miles is the maximum I can travel before something twinges in there and starts hurting. (It’s fine now, though.)
Here was the soundtrack for my run this morning:
- Dragula — Zombie, Rob
- Job Opportunities — Pimps, The
- Add It Up — Violent Femmes
- 99 Problems — Jay-Z
- Jesus Walks — West, Kanye
- Homecoming / The Death Of St. Jimmy / East 12th St. / Nobody Likes You / Rock And Roll Girlfriend / We’re Coming Home Again — Green Day
- Lose Yourself — Eminem
- The Ballad of John and Yoko — Beatles, The
- It Ought to Be Easier — Lovett, Lyle
- When You Were Young — Killers, The
- Monkey Wrench — Foo Fighters
- Help! — Beatles, The
- Numb / Encore (featuring Linkin Park) — Jay-Z
- The Last Song — Foo Fighters
- Bruises — Chairlift
- Rocket Science — Pimps, The
- Los Angeles — Sugarcult
- Death and All His Friends — Coldplay
- Man Like That — Gin Wigmore
- Remember the Name — Fort Minor
- End of the Line — Traveling Wilburys
- Surrender — Cheap Trick
- Head On — Pixies
- The Tijuana Jail — Kingston Trio, The
- Take a Look Around — Limp Bizkit
- Light of Day (live) — Springsteen, Bruce
- No Sleep Tonight — Faders, The
- How You Like Me Now — Heavy, The
- Devil With the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly — Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
