Stupid knee

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I haven't run in two days because my stupid knee hurts. Let me qualify that. My knee has this sort of pain-potentiality thing going on. It feels like a knuckle that desperately needs to be cracked. It twinges especially when I do things like walk long distances, like from the bus stop to my destination, or climb stairs. My feeling is that if I tried to run, it would only make things worse.

So, in other words, my knee is not so much hurting as it is standing there with a spork saying "Am I gonna have to cut a bitch?" Part of me wants to dismiss the puny threat. That part thinks I ought to just run on through it and tough it out. The other part, the chickenshit part, feels very strongly that the spork is just a ruse, that the knee actually has a lightsaber behind its back and will go Mace Windu on my ass if I try to run.

I don't know what I am trying to say here. I'm not running until my knee feels better. That's it, I guess. I'll cross train, but nothing with significant impact. Ellipticals, bikes, that sort of thing.

If you want to read the blog of some runner who's all "No Excuses" and hardcore, I suggest looking elsewhere. I don't like pain. The USMC has this motto that "Pain is just weakness leaving the body." Screw that. Pain hurts. I'm too old to take on that sort of misery [a knee injury] voluntarily.

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