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It was a wonderful morning. The fog made everything felt
ethereal. It covered the bottom of the creek and made it
look almost full.
I went on my usual route with such light-heartedness and
felt gliding down the gorgeous foggy trail covered with
colorful foliage. (How blessed I am.) The outer knee pain
was completely gone. The hip, however, still had some
lingering discomfort.
I planned to do an easy 7- or 8-mile run today, as the first
recovery run from last Sat's ITBS. After mile 4, the hip
discomfort grew and I stopped and did some stretching. It
felt OK and I switched to even shorter strides after that.
That helped carrying me to the end.
I thought about Cornel West's talk last week about how
people are told repeatedly that they are not successful,
beautiful, or intelligent only for the capital society to
secure their labor and people who believe in what they are
fed with slave away and would never rebel. We were thus
institutionalized, I thought, just like the prisoners in
Shawshank or even the Matrix.
I made it! Don't they say what doesn't kill you makes you
stronger? The knee didn't bother me over the entire run. I
need to learn more about the hip pain, though, and continue
to do stretching and strengthening exercises.
Time for the weekly talk over coffee with my son! Yeah!
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