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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 Los Angeles (@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