Start time: 9/29/2014, 5:37am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.09 miles
Average pace: 10:29 min/mile
Total Miles For September: 55 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 606 miles
Current Shoes: 163 miles

I have a light-up snap bracelet that I wear in the darker mornings, when I’m running by myself before meeting my running buddies. It has three modes; continually lit, blinking, and off. Every time you press the button on it, it shifts to the next mode. While running my first two miles, I had it on continually lit. Near the end of that time, I noticed it was blinking. “Hmmm,” I thought, “I must have accidentally hit the button.” I pressed it twice more and put it back to solid.

Later on the run, it was blinking again. By that point it was light enough out that I just turned it off. When I got back to the car… it was lit up again. And wouldn’t turn off, or even into blinking mode. When I got to the gym (to take a shower), it was still lit up and refused to change. Upon leaving the gym… it was off. And completely dead.

And to think, just yesterday I had said, “Oh good, I didn’t need to replace it this year like I did last fall.” Oops!