A week out from the most daunting physical task, perhaps of my running career thus far, a song I’ve known for years lodged itself deep in my brain, connecting itself to my emotions and my physical being. Maybe it was the figurative emergence from the dark into the light, or the notion of being able to stand atop a pile of rubble and just let every emotion slip into the forgettable depths behind you, or simply the mention of the Devil. Either way, as I ran around in circles in my final days leading up to a Fastest Known Time (FKT) attempt on the Devil’s Path in the Catskills of NY, Shake It Out by Florence + the Machine ran around in circles in my head.