Eff This, I’m Walking
Tuesday has been my running day for quite some time now and with the changes to my schedule recently, I have had to do my running in town after work. It’s been interesting having new scenery and to actually run in the daylight as opposed to the nighttime in my neighborhood. Last week, I had a phenomenal run of going 5 and half times around the perimeter of Kapiolani Park and I thought that maybe I could try it once again and hope to keep pace.
Well, the weather has been rather cold and windy (at least for Hawaii) and though I had been encouraged by the patches of blue in the sky, I could not contend with the weather for today’s run. I found that the strong wind was more than enough to exhaust me and discourage me from jogging. I ended up speed walking a lot of the 3 laps I took. By the end of the 3rd lap, I stopped my Nike+ workout and decided to just walk the last lap. It had me pretty bummed.
What was most distressing was that my right knee is starting to get sore. When I started to take up running, my reasoning was that my joints were eventually going to go to hell because of my arthritis, so I might as well make use of them while I can. Perhaps I half joked about that, because the thought of not being able to utilize my knees is now scaring me. I am willing to endure whatever treatments they prescribe me to spare the rest of my joints. It may turn out that I just can’t run anymore, and that would be a real bummer.