Is it too late for glucosamine?
Lyric of the day: “There’s something about you girl… that makes me sweat” Need You Tonight, INXS (1987)
Yeah, that would probably be the fact that I am running up a ski hill in 25 degree weather.
Today’s Training:
- 2-mile warm-up laps on bike
- 800-metre run
- Tons of obstacles (including an inordinate number of tires)
- 800-metre run
- Lunges uphill (my version of “Hell’s Hill”)
And this is where I had to stop because my knees were complaning. I don’t always hear them, my knees, despite their clear protests. Usually they feel stiff and reluctant at the outset of a run, but today I noticed mid-lunge, that they were really not pleased with all this repeated bending. So I stopped (imagine!) and hopped on my bike (okay, so I didn’t completely stop). I rode a slow lap until I felt more comfortable, and then finished off with virtual haystack climbing and a final 800 metre run (okay, I think I stopped short by about 100 metres). I was rather demoralized by the whole cranky knee episode. I didn’t even stretch afterward (for shame!), but instead sat down on a Muskoka chair on my front porch where I was seriously nattered at by two grey catbirds. I should know better. It is not as though my knees haven’t been complaning since I was, oh, 21 years-old. Ah well, there’s always yoga, no?