Another Half

I ran another half marathon this morning before work. Add that to the one I ran on New Year’s Day and that gives me a solid 26.2 miles this year. My wife gave me a great pair of Nike running shoes for Christmas. They felt very strange at first — they’re the lightest sneakers I’ve ever owned — but now I love them.

The only bummer is that my right knee seems to only last about six miles before I start experiencing excruciating pain. As my friend is quick to note, I’m no doctor. But to me it feels like my lateral collateral ligament is what’s causing problems. I can’t tell if it’s simply getting inflamed or if I might have damaged it somehow. Aspirin helps, but I think I’m going to have to see a doctor about it.

Here are the tracks I heard on my run:

• Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction
• Dirt Off Your Shoulder / Lying from You (featuring Linkin Park) – Jay-Z
• All These Things That I’ve Done – Killers, The
• Fraud In The 80’s – Mates Of State
• Light of Day (live) – Springsteen, Bruce
• Alcohol – Barenaked Ladies
• Poker Face – Lady GaGa
• Generator – Foo Fighters
• I’m Looking Through You – Beatles, The
• Knockout (featuring Nicki Minaj) – Lil Wayne
• Desolation Row – My Chemical Romance
• Blue Monday – Orgy
• Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
• She Came in Through the Bathroom Window – Beatles, The
• Horchata – Vampire Weekend
• Hello, Goodbye – Beatles, The
• Add It Up – Violent Femmes
• Give Me Novacaine – Green Day
• Homecoming / The Death Of St. Jimmy / East 12th St. / Nobody Likes You / Rock And Roll Girlfriend / We’re Coming Home Again – Green Day
• How You Like Me Now – Heavy, The
• Sugar, We’re Goin Down – Fall Out Boy
• Life in Technicolor ii – Coldplay
• Certain Romance, A – Arctic Monkeys
• Fast As You – Yoakam, Dwight
• Tombstone Blues – Dylan, Bob
• Shut Up – blink-182