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Nathaniel and I finished the Thunder Road Marathon in Charlotte yesterday. My foot/ankle wasn’t fully healed from what was probably a sprain a week or so ago, so it was pretty painful for me. I ended up about 35 minutes off my goal time, but I’m glad just to have survived. The first half was really hard on me, and it took me a while to adjust, but I knew I had to finish.
So, once I got everything straight with my shoes and my new gait, I got to where I could run most of every mile. My final time was about 4:24, splitting 9:05 on the first half and 10 something on the second. Physically painful, but I feel really good to have gotten through it depite it all.
The track was more hilly than anything I’d ever attempted, so if I’m healthy for the NYC marathon, where the Verrazano Bridge is the only real hill, that’ll seem easy in comparison (I hope!). But the verdict is in– I’m definitely gonna run more marathons. Nathaniel seems to feel the same way.
Here’s my big nasty bruise that is probably evidence that I shouldn’t have run:
& if anyone cares, here’s my run playlist– “The Clap,” by Cherry Valence was the first song to come up, and Colin Meloy’s acoustic cover of “Sister I’m a Poet” was, strangely, the track that I was listening to when I crossed the finish line.
A Certain Ratio Do the Du
ABBA Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA Mamma Mia
ABBA SOS
ABBA Super Trouper
Aceyalone The Faces
Air Miami World Cup Fever
Bardo Pond Tommy Gun Angel
Bauhaus Kick In The Eye
Baxter Dury Gingham Smalls 2
Baxter Dury Lucifer’s Grain
Baxter Dury Oscar Brown
Black Moth Super Rainbow I Am The Alphabet
Blur To The End
Bowery Electric Fear Of Flying
Brian Eno Here Come The Warm Jets
Broker/Dealer Can’t Believe
CAM`RON Hey Ma
Cherry Valence Lose That Smile
Cherry Valence The Clap
Chromeo Fancy Footwork
Colin Meloy Sister I’m A Poet
Cub New York City
De La Soul Brakes
Devo Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth
Dub Narcotic Sound System Shake A Puddin
E.S.G. You’re No Good
Egyptian Lover Egypt Egypt
Flin Flon Upper Ferry
Four Tet Smile Around The Face
Garden Variety Harbored
Gary Numan Films
Glass Candy Digital Versicolor
Glass Candy Rolling Down The Hills (Spring Demo)
Gwen Stefani Crash
Happy Mondays God’s Cop
Henry Badowski Henry’s In Love
Hercules and Love Affair Athene
Honeymoon Killers laisse tomber les filles
Huon Complex
Ian Brown Gettin’ High
Ikara Colt At The Lodge
Jawbreaker Boxcar
Jesus & Mary Chain Featuring Mazzy Star Sometimes Always
Joanna Newsom The Book of Right-On
Joe Jackson A Slow Song
Joe Jackson Another World
Joe Jackson Look Sharp!
Joy Division Disorder
Joy Division Isolation
Justice D.A.N.C.E
Koufax It Had to Do With Love
Kraftwerk Spacelab
Ladytron Seventeen
LCD Soundsystem Someone Great
Le Tigre Well Well Well
Liz Phair Support System
Lou Reed Hangin’ Round
Luscious Jackson City Song
Lynnfield Pioneers Crossfade
MAKE-UP They Live By Night
Mayo Thompson Black Legs
Mayo Thompson Good Brisk Blues
Mayo Thompson Side Two To You
Mayo Thompson Venus In The Morning
Michael Jackson Rock With You
Mikkel Metal Microho
Motorhead White Line Fever
My Bloody Valentine Only Shallow
My Bloody Valentine Soon
Neko Case Deep Red Bells
Neko Case Hex
Neko Case Hold On, Hold On
Neko Case Knock Loud
Neko Case That Teenage Feeling
Neko Case Things That Scare Me
New Sweet Breath Bring It On
No Doubt Hella Good
Old 97’s Timebomb
Oxford Collapse Lady Lawyers
Oxford Collapse Please Visit Your National Parks
Palace Music Work Hard/Play Hard
Polvo Vibracobra
Princess Superstar Bad Babysitter (Featuring High & Mighty)
Public Image Ltd. Socialist
Pulp Party Hard
Pylon Feast On My Heart
Ratatat Seventeen Years
Redd Kross Look On Up At The Bottom
Royal Trux Let’s Get Lost
Shocking Blue Inkpot
Silkworm Couldn’t You Wait?
Silkworm I Must Prepare (Tablecloth Tint)
Simian Mobile Disco Hustler
Smiths Girl Afraid
Snow Pony Easy Way Down
Sole Sides Greates Bumps Latyrx_Lady Don’t Tek No
Solex A Round Figure
Solex Oh Blimey!
Solex Shoot Shoot!
Sons & Daughters Awkward Duet
Sons & Daughters Taste The Last Girl
Spoon Anything You Want
Squeeze Squabs On Forty Fab
Stephen Prina Cums For Shove
Stereolab Miss Modular
Stereolab Our Trinitone Blast
Stereolab Tone Burst
Subhumans Mickey Mouse Is Dead
Suzi Quatro Strip Me
Talking Heads Dream Operator
Talking Heads Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Hearts Of Oak
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The Ballad Of The Sin Eater
Television See No Evil
The B-52s Legal Tender
The Field Everyday
The Lilys lilys_nanny_ext
The New Pornographers From Blown Speakers
The New Pornographers It’s Only Divine Right
The New Pornographers Sing Me Spanish Techno
The New Pornographers The Laws Have Changed
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
The Odd Numbers Holiday
The Stone Roses I Am the Resurrection
The Stooges Loose
Warren G & Nate Dogg Regulators