Fastest 3 Miles

Last night, I ran my fastest 3-mile run to date. My overall pace was 7:57 per mile, finally breaking that 8-minute mile time. Yesterday was a beautiful, hot, humid October day. After a somewhat trying day at work the run was exactly what I needed.

I decided to run to the song Let Down by Radiohead on repeat. It’s a beautiful song, but not something you’d think of as a running song. For whatever reason, I just wanted the repetition of that song over and over. And each time the song restarted, it was just as good as the first time.

Speaking of Radiohead, their new album, In Rainbows, comes out tomorrow. They’ve also decided to release this album themselves and allow you to pay whatever you want for the download. Get the album or read more details.

I also read yesterday that a new David Bazan album is in the works and should be coming out in early 2008. I can’t wait for that. Everything David Bazan does is amazing. I saw him on an acoustic tour with Ben Gibbard a few months back and it was fantastic.

So, to wrap up this disjointed blog, here is a David Bazan cover of Radiohead’s Let Down (it’s track 5). You didn’t think I was going to be able to pull this all together, did you?