PM: 8.25 miles on the treadmill - mostly at around 8 minute pace.
I listened to R.E.M's fifth album, Document, while I was running and the time just flew by. It's impossible to explain what that band meant to me and my friends in Greenville SC in the early 1980's and when that album came out in the summer of 1987 I was in basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Ordinarily, on R.E.M album release day I would have been at Manifest Discs and Tapes at the crack of dawn waiting for the store to open but the United States Army and my drill seargeants would not accomodate that. I remember one day when we were given the opportunity to miss a day of training if we volunteered to donate blood and I was lying in the chair listening to the radio that the blood tech person had on and The One I love came on. I feigned wooziness so I could listen to the whole thing. When I got to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio for AIT, and finally got a little bit of freedom, my first purchase at the PX was a Walkman and Document on cassette. For the next couple months it was pretty much the only thing I listened to in my free time...
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