Tuesday was a rough day for me. I am starting to train for a Ragnar with Justin, Kira, Ben and Alex in April. While Lisa and I walk almost daily, I haven’t run regularly for almost a year. As I started to run and up my miles a little bit my left knee started to hurt. That always happens when I haven’t run for a while and I just back off a bit and ramp up slowly. This time when I did that, the knee didn’t really get any better. It didn’t get worse but it wasn’t improving.
I have had so many friends lately getting hip and knee replacements that I am now a bit paranoid so I decided to make an appointment for my overdue physical and ask my doctor about it. He sent me for an x-ray and I got the results on Tuesday. I have grade 2 arthritis in my left knee. I love running and the thought of not running is quite depressing.
Before I started running I was riding my bike more and more and when Alan Bird got me hooked on running I always said that I would run until I couldn’t run any more and then go back to biking. Right now I have a very nice road bike and a very nice mountain bike. I have rarely used either one of them. I guess it is time to dust them off and get going.
Meanwhile, there is no way I am not runnig the Ragnar in April but I will not be training for it. I will ride my bike five days a week to get my cardio in shape, and then I will do my best at the Ragnar.
The knee doesn’t really hurt much and I can run four or five miles just fine. I just know that running will agrevate my arthritis and I need this knee to last another twenty years or so.
I have had so many friends lately getting hip and knee replacements that I am now a bit paranoid so I decided to make an appointment for my overdue physical and ask my doctor about it. He sent me for an x-ray and I got the results on Tuesday. I have grade 2 arthritis in my left knee. I love running and the thought of not running is quite depressing.
Before I started running I was riding my bike more and more and when Alan Bird got me hooked on running I always said that I would run until I couldn’t run any more and then go back to biking. Right now I have a very nice road bike and a very nice mountain bike. I have rarely used either one of them. I guess it is time to dust them off and get going.
Meanwhile, there is no way I am not runnig the Ragnar in April but I will not be training for it. I will ride my bike five days a week to get my cardio in shape, and then I will do my best at the Ragnar.
The knee doesn’t really hurt much and I can run four or five miles just fine. I just know that running will agrevate my arthritis and I need this knee to last another twenty years or so.
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In hot weather, humans are the fastest long distance runners on earth. In more temperate weather, we would be beat by dogs, ostriches and prong horn antelope. An Ostrich could run a 45 minute marathon.
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