Thursday, October 27, 2005

wvelte

I'm not sure I ever announced this on my blog, but my running schedule went on about a two-week hiatus as a result of my pulling/tearing/cleaving/pulverizing one of the tendons/ligaments/muscles in the back of my right knee. For awhile, I was afraid I was going to have to bury my half-marathon-plans at wounded knee, but I've been back at it the past week and a half. You'd be surprised at how much running you can do with only minimal movement of your right knee, so long as your left leg, right ankle, and arms are willing to pick up the slack. Anyway, getting back just to where I was before has been slow, and tonight was the first night where I really felt I had my lungs at something approximating 90% of where they were.

When I got back, I was fairly exhausted, and upon going into my bathroom to shower, I slouched back against my back wall, just like I have numerous times before. Before, though, nobody was using their heat in the building, so the fact that I'd been slouching against one of the radiator pipes went unnoticed. As opposed to tonight, where that same pipe seemed like it was somewhere around 300 degrees. It felt sort of like that time the phone rang when I was ironing. Anyway, I'm going to be annoyed if at the end of this fellowship I look back and think: two years at Harvard, and all I have to show for it is some freaky vertical scar down my back. If it does scar, I'll have to come up with a better story to tell about it, preferably involving my foiling a plot to take over the world and perhaps some Ninja as well.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your MD said it was okay to run that way?

Calabash

jeremy said...

I don't have an MD. Do they sell them on Amazon?

Anonymous said...

Take yourself over to Holyoke Center, fella, and get some expert help on healing that injury.

Some of your readers objected strenuously to a comment by an anon who thought you sounded lonely a few blogs back. But I think he/she discerned something the others did not — that something WAS going on. It's good you shared it with us.

Hope it's healing okay.

Calabash

Anonymous said...

Don't mess with those knee injuries. Ignoring them tends to make them worse, and sometimes causes permanent disability.

christopher uggen said...

hey, you've probably got like real medical advice on the knee, but here's a regimen i developed after similar problems: (1) one glucosamine per day (unless i'm pregnant); (2) light quadriceps and hamstrings work (the lay-on-your stomach machine and the chair-like machine at the gym) a couple times per week; and, (3) simple cushy shoes such as the air pegasus, replaced as soon as they lose said cushiness.

Anonymous said...

that is way too funny...thanks for the laugh! ;)
--me

Anonymous said...

Nothing like doing someone else's exercises before you know exactly what happened inside that little old knee of yours.
JP