Run, Run, As Fast As You Can…

Week Two, Day Five!

Well, today was progress, and not. Lemme ‘splain…. The Man has a trick knee; he hurt it on the job many a moon ago and since then, it acts up accordingly. Today it was hurting in a particularly bad way, so I suggested that he walk it instead of run. After much hemming and hawing, he agreed with me. I mean, better to let it mend than to totally screw it up and not be able to run, period, know what I mean?

I decided that since there was nothing wrong with me except perpetual sedentarism, I would continue the run. He handed over the watch so I could keep time, thus making me the Time Keeper (can we saw Ultimate Cosmic Power? haha). I hooked myself back up to my iPod and off I went.

So I ran. And ran. And ran. Thing is, I was so into my music, I forgot to look at the watch. Because I’m not used to being Time Keeper, used to looking to The Man for my cues to start and stop, I kinda just kept running. I was getting winded. I was hurting. By the time I remembered that I was Time Keeper, I had forgotten what time it was that I started, so I made the command decision to run at least ‘til the end of the song playing on my iPod because I knew I had started when it started, and I knew it would be at least two minutes, and then some.

In total, about four minutes.

And now my ass is KILLING ME! But I don’t regret it. How can I? I did it! AND I did it up an incline, too. No wonder the buttocks are sore.

Anyway, now for the not-progress part. I think because I strained myself running that four minute part, I did something weird to my ankle. I ran another two minutes, but then my ankle hurt pretty bad and we walked the rest. I feel better now, about 45 minutes after the running, except for my aching behind, though, so I should be good to go for tomorrow.

Tomorrow marks day six of week two. We’re still doing run two, walk four, and I don’t know if I’m ready yet for run three, walk three. I’m not going to stress out about it, though. The fact that I’m out there doing it at all is a lot, way more than I was doing before, and everyday I do it is another day towards meeting my goal. I don’t care how long it takes, I am determined to see this thing through, so if I have to take yet another week of run two, walk four, so be it.

The Man is going to walk tomorrow instead of run, to let his knee heal a bit. It’s taken a pounding, and not surprising that it acts up.

The thing is, our bodies are still in the build up phase of things. Building up tolerance, building up stamina, building up muscle, all of that. It’s gonna take some time! We didn’t do this to ourselves in a short time, it’s going take awhile to fix it.

But at least we’re out there DOING IT, right? Right.

Peace.