I am one with the levee and the levee with me

Got an hour in on the elliptical. HR 140-145. This has got to be the most boring form of exercise ever invented. It's driving me insane. I ran a few strides but decided not to risk making it worse. I'm still optimistic, maybe by the end of this week I'll be able to run again.

Another hour on the elliptical. I might try to run a little bit tonight, but I don't want to push things. I had trouble getting my HR up to the normal levels. I was working harder than last night, but it was difficult to keep it about 140. 

Ran a couple of miles today. The knee is stiff and hurts a little but seems to be working okay. I only ran 2 miles to see if it would hurt it, help it, or if the knee would care at all. It's Saturday that I'm typing this, and the knee doesn't seem to have cared. I'll try a few more miles tonight.

I should be supplementing this with the elliptical work, but 1) I'm not sure if the elliptical is helping or hindering the knee recovery, and 2) I hate the elliptical. I've taken a couple days off and the knee seemed to do much better. I'm afraid that if I keep forcing myself out of bed at 6 am that I will quit everything altogether. Since walking on got shot down, I think I'm going to turn my attention to the marathon. 

4 miles! Woohoo! My knee actually felt better today after yesterday's run, so I pushed the run to 4 miles. Not pain-free miles, but it wasn't bad. I probably won't go past this until I've made better progress, but this is starting to look better.

I'm a little surprised at how bad this injury turned out to be. I thought I'd only miss a couple days. This has been much worse than I'd hoped, but at least it's getting better. With any luck, I won't have to sue that gas station after all ;)