Square One

I did not in fact, step off the face off the earth last month, though it probably seems that way. If there's anyone left out there who might end up reading this, I say thanks for coming back! I'm hoping to make this a more regular thing now that I might actually have some running to write about...

This morning I donned the Brooks for the first time in two months - and ran for a tentative 6 minutes! The knee did not trouble me at all whilst on the move, but I've been hyper paranoid that I can feel it twinging ever since.

I have been MI - I - I - I - SERABLE over this past couple months of inactivity. I mean, on the grand Mood Spectrum I probably haven't been that unhappy, but I'm so used to an elevated frame of mind that this felt pretty bad. I attribute a large portion of it to the absence of running. I attribute another part of it to my pathetic reaction to being unable to run. I essentially withdrew from the world: too lazy/depressed/fearful to call a doctor, to take up any other form of exercise (I cancelled my membership at the Y just before this happened), to stretch, to watch my diet...or pretty much do anything constructive and positive for my mind or body.

Hopefully now this horrible downward trajectory is coming to an end, and I can start to turn things around. Just don't let me complain about my speed or the heat or the cold or the wind or anything peripheral to the sport of running ever again. All I want to do is run.