If the universe is giving me a message..
..that I wasn’t meant to run..
..I’m not listening.
Today was (is) a beautiful day - 80 degrees (first time that high in a month or so), not humid (what??), no rain (that’s kind of unusual too). Sneakers - check, bra - check, rock n roll. Did 30 sec. running/1 min. walking intervals, planned on 16 reps but stopped at 14 due to some strange back discomfort. Not pain, more like a pressure, low back below the kidney on the right. No sharp or shooting pain, nothing down the leg, not sciatic I don’t think, no hip pain. Hmmmm, I’m befuddled . When I stopped running and just walked, there was no discomfort but now that I’ve been sitting down at the computer for awhile and got up to move around, I felt it again. Strange.
Happily, my ankle did fine with the 10 second extension on the running intervels.
I think I’m just going to have to cough up the cash and go to a sports PT place to get some for-true guidance on my gait, shoe needs, training program, or whatever else. Maybe I’m just super-sensitized to not wanting anything to go awry, and maybe that’s not realistic. I’m probably being reactionary, as usual, but if shit needs correcting then so be it. How ridiculously annoyingly dispiriting would it be if I sustain some other run-preventing problem all ready?? I guess I can’t just continue to bungle along.
Ironically, in all other aspects of my life, I consider myself a pretty low maintanence person. I live a relatively simple and satisfying life. Running was supposed to be simple too, maybe not easy, but simple.
Well, tomorrow is new. I know it sounds like Pollyana’s taking a dive but it’s really just a stumble 
Comment by Jon in Michigan
Wednesday August 18 2004 @ 8:44 am
Of course you were meant to run! You were designed that way on purpose. That’s also why your body repairs itself, because you can get hurt even doing what you were designed to do.
Doesn’t sound like a stumble at all. I think you are taking reasonable precaution.