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Okay, so there weren’t icicles on the eaves when I left the house this morning. But 49°F is freezing once you’ve lived in Southern California for over a decade. I’ve also never been able to run in anything but shorts, and I have to stick with something incredibly light — a t-shirt — if I’m going more than five miles or else the weight of my sweat becomes an issue. It took me a solid three miles before I was warm enough that I didn’t care about the temperature.

The sky was insanely gorgeous this morning. Venus and the crescent moon in the shocking clear dawn over the city were phenomenal. The Christmas trees and lights all over Century City and Beverly Hills were sparkling. Even the obese homeless guy that lives in front of the Bank of America on Pico seemed cheerful as he was stacking plastic grocery bags of yellow pages in his shopping cart.

I just finished a 13.2 mi run with a pace of 9'35"/mi with Nike+ Running. http://t.co/Ik8NA0N0 #nikeplus

— David Vincent Gagne (@davidgagne) December 10, 2012

Here are the tracks I heard on my run:

• I’ve Just Seen a Face — Beatles, The
• Tombstone Blues — Dylan, Bob
• Jesus of Suburbia (live) (Carson Daly) — Green Day
• Somewhere Across Forever — Stellastarr*
• Such Great Heights — Postal Service, The
• Bizarre Love Triangle — New Order
• The Dirty Glass — Dropkick Murphys
• Ana Ng — They Might Be Giants
• Handle with Care (live) — Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers
• My Life Would Suck Without You — Clarkson, Kelly
• Crash On The Barrelhead — Old 97’s
• Dirt Off Your Shoulder / Lying from You (featuring Linkin Park) — Jay-Z
• New Way Home — Foo Fighters
• Tear You Apart — She Wants Revenge
• Light of Day (live) — Springsteen, Bruce
• Sinnerman — Simone, Nina
• I Predict a Riot — Kaiser Chiefs
• She Came in Through the Bathroom Window — Beatles, The
• I’ve Been Everywhere — Cash, Johnny
• Blue Monday — Orgy
• The Last Song — Foo Fighters
• Knockout (featuring Nicki Minaj) — Lil Wayne
• I’m Not Okay (I Promise) — My Chemical Romance
• I’m Shipping Up to Boston — Dropkick Murphys
• From a Buick 6 — Dylan, Bob
• Oh My — Gin Wigmore
• How’s My Driving, Doug Hastings? — Less Than Jake