Woke up this morning thinking that my knees and ankles were feeling better from a good night's sleep. Then I stood up. I wish it was muscle pain. Muscle pain I can handle. With muscle pain you hydrate, you stretch, you massage, you work through it and you get stronger. However, this is joint pain that only occurs when I am standing/walking/running. I'm hobbling and it's really kind of annoying. I almost fell down this morning when I started down the back steps and wasn't holding on to the railing (or, actually, since there isn't a railing, I wasn't leaning on the wall). So, because of the pain I decided that my body probably needed another rest day. I'm going to take today off, do some stretching, some massage, some rest and hopefully be back at it tomorrow. If I'm still hurting tomorrow, I'll probably go out and just do a shorter distance than what is scheduled so that I don't lose what little fitness I have already gained. Well, that's the plan, anyway. If the pain keeps up for too long while I'm running, I might have to get a gym membership and just do the elliptical for a while. We'll see.
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