Yes, Run for Your Life!
Post-physical therapy treatment, the parameters have shifted
with a new resolve in strengthening (in keeping with my approach to stretching
and a faith in muscle balance that will help in my continuing recovery).
And, I’m back outdoors. (Not in the blizzard [Jan. 22-24]
but …) To date, I’ve not done any better than a three-mile jog that takes me
thirty-five minutes. (Don’t do the math.)
A comedown from marathon training, I know. Call me a slow
learner. It’s taken me more than a year to admit to myself that you can’t push a
weakened body any more than you can push a late model car (Yes, 1993 Volvo
850!) without investing in repairs when needed.
Step by step. Soon, I hope, I’ll work my way up to once
around Prospect Park and home, a four-mile run. I’ll be doing that. Count on
it. But as a stronger, wiser athlete. Because, as the blog title indicates, I’ve
no alternative. It’s been a great, long ride – now’s time to embrace a little
slowness – in order to make it a longer ride !
Next: Running for
Your Life: Winter Storm Jonas ??
