I’ve been keeping at the running thing, though I’m noticing my right knee is not very happy with it. Ignoring it does not seem to work. I wish I had a brain radio so I could tune the knee out, much in the same way I use my car’s radio to tune out the squelching sound from my car’s right rear wheel under braking. The knee feels great when I’m running. It’s all the time in between running that it decides to be unhappy. Ibuprofen.
Three laps is almost exactly five miles. I’ve done it twice in the last two weeks, and each time I start out stiffly but by about mile 2 I get this strange feeling, like I could run all day, and that I could easily do a marathon. Alas, I believe that to be my “second wind” since by mile 4 I’m ready to be pithed.
The weather has cleared and therefore I took the car to the shop to have them assess my wheel situation along with a 60k mile service, so I rode my bike to work today. I’ve missed bike commuting. The longer I spend off the bike, the harder it is to convince myself that I want to bike commute, but that feeling disappears the moment I swing my leg over the top tube. I love to ride. I love the cold morning air. And it’s nice to spend time outside.
I wasn’t sure if the bike path through Mission Valley would be open since Murphy Canyon creek, which runs through the bat cave, floods during storms and washes tons of silt onto the path. Fortunately the silt was cleared, though the creek has changed dramatically. It’s one of those concrete culverts, and it is now half-full of silt. There is a chain link fence between the bike path and the creek, and one section has completely toppled, the steel poles bent at 90 degree angles. I would really like to see what the creek looks like during flood stage.