Sounds simple, and
yeah, given that I’ve been running for 40-plus years, pounding these essential
joints into what should by rights be sundered to ligament if not bone dust, I’m
one to talk.
But after my
Halloween 2015 knee collapse on a treadmill during which I was pushing this
60-plus body to 30-plus speeds, faster, stronger was my motto for those first
39 years of running.
The way I came
back from that knee injury, something I’ve spent a good deal of time writing
about in this space, changed all that.
Now I try to take
care of those joints. With better, less worn running shoes, compression socks
to ease leg pounding (No shin splints!) and Velcro patella straps to help keep
the knees stable from foot strike to foot strike, stride after stride.
Oh, and as I slow
down, know that my butt is more aligned with my stride below, rather than
behind it, with my chest pushed out, in sprint mode.
Relax. After all,
this is Running for Your Life.
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