At least once a week I enjoy hoofing it to the station instead of riding the streetcar; that’s been established. Today I took my time. The relatively warm weather was certainly pleasant enough to give me the luxury of taking my time. Shortly after I started walking though, I started feeling some aches and pains in my left knee. As I continued along, it started becoming really uncomfortable. I eventually developed a slight limp just to make it through. I had no intention of picking up a streetcar–I made it a point to walk the distance, and I was going to finish it.
I couldn’t think of any reason at all why my left knee wasn’t feeling right. Actually, if anything I was expecting my right knee to feel pain. See, a few days ago I sat a bit strangely on my chair at my desk with my right leg tucked under my rear. That usually isn’t an issue, but that day I felt a sudden ache in my knee. Since then, when I put a little bit of lateral tension on my right knee the pain comes back. So now, combined with the problems with my left knee I’m starting to be a little bit worried. It’s not the fact that these pains are appearing seemingly randomly that’s got me on edge. No, it’s the fact that I’m a few days away from race day. I don’t want to be running my race with a sudden bout of pain at the halfway mark. Running that long distance is already a feat of will power. Throw pain into the equation and things might fall apart. Who knows?
Tomorrow is another day. I’ll carry some pain killers and muscle cream with to make sure that it won’t be so bad. I really hope this is temporary, or else.
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