3 miles today - 5:30AM. I floated in the dark. Scared myself with my own shadow twice. People ask me what I think about spending so much time alone in the dark morning. Most of the time I am so in the "now" that my mind doesn't wander into the past or in the future. That is was is so poetic about running. It is one foot in front of the other, it is the smells that you smell you RIGHT now, the air that you breathe RIGHT now, the song that you sing RIGHT now. Speaking of songs, these are the songs or groups that (with God's help) will carry me through the last 8 miles:
Mumford and Son (2 songs)
Coldplay/Jay-Z (Lost - -this my marathon theme song)
Eminem Till I Collapse
Kanye West All of the Lights
ACDC Thunderstruck
Goo Goo Dolls Name
Stevie Nicks For What It's Worth
Kanye West Stronger
Old Crow Medicine Show Wagon Wheel
Eminem Lose Yourself
Finger Eleven Paralyzer
Ryan Bingham Southside of Heaven
Fort Minor Remember the Name
U2 Beautiful Day
Edward Sharpe Home
Stevie Nicks Landslide
Kevin Rudolf Let it Rock
Rumspringa (Minds Awake and Shake em' Loose)
Van Morrison In the Garden
Saliva Click Click Book
Wyclef Jean We Are Trying To Stay Alive
Rob Thomas . . Little Wonders I love this line: "All lives are made in these small hours" Yes, I was man enough to admit Rob Thomas . .
The only time I usually listen to this Rap/Rock stuff is when I work out . . .I need this at the end of the run because it gets my blood flowing so good that I would tend to start sprinting if these songs came early in the run! I've got 75 songs on my marathon playlist . .lots of slower, sad stuff at the beginning of the run that reminds me of people that I love, people that I love that have died, and songs that remind me of me . .
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This is it . . .
