Took my girlies out for a walk on the river trail, the day was deliciously sunny. I walked really fast and then jiggidy-jogged off and on. When I didn't feel any pain or bouncing, I just kept at it. I hope pain would indicate I'm doing something wrong and I'm not just wrecking stuff inside without feeling anything. On the trail today was a group of about 50 runners, they had "A 2 A" on their shirts. We ran a little ways with a small slower trio and asked what the logo was about and they said the running club is called Addict 2 Athlete and their motto is "erase and replace". I was impressed. I told each of them how amazing I thought they were and told them to keep it up (both the running and the sobriety). I thought replacing bad addictions for running was a terrific use of compulsive and addictive behavior. All runners fear the day they can't run, for fear of what compulsive behavior will replace the running? I read a funny article on the Onion a few weeks ago, the headline was "wife of Kobe Bryant really excited to spend 24/7 with her hubby for the next 9 months while he can't play ball". This was after Kobe broke his Achilles or whatever. I've been lucky to not have torn my hamstring or damaged it any worse than I did. I can still run moderate distances and enjoy a smaller version of what I always loved about running: being outside, sweating, and clearing my head. When we finished our course, my daughter said "when the doctor said you could work up to light running, I don't think he meant almost 5 miles next Saturday. I think he thinks 'light running' means a mile or two." Who knows what is considered light running. When he gave me the go-ahead for the elliptical, halfway through my first work out, I pondered if the envisioned me doing like an hour an high resistance. I sweat so good my huge bandages had sweated right off my skin. Not sure if he would've approved or not. But it didn't feel bad. | 