Got the all clear from the Orthopedic he said something like "well, you probably won't cripple yourself on Saturday" I took that as a go? Really, he said the knee isn't too big a concern, kinda is what it is, he thinks the sharp pain of late is due to the calf tighness and pain changing my stride and puting more stress on the knee . . .who knows? The 2 ART therapy treatments on my calf seem to have loosened things up a bit. I went out thonight for the first runnning steps in almost two weeks, felt like crap as expected, took 15 minutes to remember how to run and that left me 10 minutes to cruise. Got in a few strides and a little up and down. Knee pain . . .on a scale of 1(mild) to 10 . . . 6 sometimes, 2 most of the time, 0 once in a while. Anyway, I'm in! I'm going to start Saturday. Maybe me and Oreo can tie our 2 bad legs together and finish in a good old fashion three legged race style on our 2 good ones. No time predictions, too many health variables at this point. I'm going to give it what I got, all I got, and hopefully beat my smoke'en fast 13:40 from last year . . . | 