RainIt 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.



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:

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