Running Feet

[cjsmith]

I tried to run today. Running two days in a row is an important test, I told myself.

I got maybe twenty paces before I knew I would have to turn back. I walked and stretched and hopped a little bit, deceiving myself, but I was being foolish and I knew it. I galloped home, putting full weight only on the foot that wasn't currently hurting.

I'm not sure quite how to compare it, but this may mean I have made no progress whatsoever. I couldn't do two days in a row in December, nor can I now.

Ah well. I'll see what the physical therapist makes of this. I'm glad I tried it. If I'm not "cured" I want to know I'm not cured, so I can keep talking to doctors until I am. I hold on to the hope that one day I will run again.

Comments

[ambar.livejournal.com]

What about bicycling as an alternative exercise to running or swimming?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been resisting bicycling and I'm not completely clear on why. It's just as hard on bad knees as running... but then, hey, I already want to run. I know far too many bicyclists with gravel permanently embedded in some part of their bodies... that's part of it, but not all of it. I don't really know why.

Maybe because the most vocal of the serious bicyclists I know personally is a complete @$$hole. Maybe. I don't know.

Picture me waving my hands vaguely, in some semi-frustrated kind of way. :-/