Well, I'm back in the saddle again...but a little saddle sore. After the 50, the marathon, and the relay I found myself physically beat up and...a little unexpectedly...mentally tired of running. I didn't run a step last week, which normally would drive me nuts, but it didn't bother me...and I maybe even enjoyed it a little. Thankfully, I've got good running buddies to keep me from straying too far. I was talking with Larry yesterday and he said they were going to the track this morning. I was still feeling some pain in my knee and heel, but decided to go see how it felt to run on them. Larry didn't show, but Kent and Lyle did. They ran 1/2 mile repeats while I just ran slow laps. I had a hard time generating any speed this morning. My knee and heel did hurt a little, but I think it was my right hip and overall stiffness that kept me running slow. I had read Tom Lee's blog from Saturday where he said, "Those darn scar tissue areas just don't ever seem to completely be
happy, but I've found they do alot better being active than when doing
nothing." I've learned that before. I'm learning it again. I believe Sasha calls it active recovery. My current plan is to return to a previous plan to take aspirin regularly. My dad's heart surgeon recommended aspirin to me as a precautionary treatment for my family history of heart attacks, and it is a long established anti-inflammatory that should help with my arthritic hip, bad knee, and PF pain. Gee whiz, I sound like I'm 80, not 50. I was talking with a good brother at church yesterday whose father is 87 and suffering from Alzheimers and is unable to care for himself. We had been talking about how life can be challenging at times. He mentioned that he is grateful just to be able to take care of himself and deal with the challenges each day brings. What a great attitude. The martial artist Bruce Lee said, "When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive." Gladly, I'm still alive.
I just realized I quoted both Tom Lee and Bruce Lee. I wonder if they are related?
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