Well, I’ve had yet another demonstration of how my running is a delicately balanced house of cards, and all it takes is one itty bitty butterfly flapping its wings of chaos to knock it over. In this case the butterfly was a mysterious illness, which sidelined me from running for a couple of days, and as a result my running schedule got out of whack..prompting me to make the fateful decision to work out at the gym just to get in some exercise. I avoided the dread-mill, since I hate it so much, but I did use those other evil machines of destruction, two different versions of some elliptical-stair-simulator-thingy. This did something bad to my hips. Then, as if that weren’t enough, yesterday I had to cut my Thursday run short because of work, so I got on my stationary bike that I haven’t ridden since Joe Biden was a junior senator (really) and rode it for an hour late last night. Then today, I did a 7 mile lunch-hour run and both my knees were all hurty. Sigh.
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House of Cards
Posted in injuries, running, Uncategorized, tagged elliptical, knee injury on February 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
- "Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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