"Stay Calm"

As most of the discomfort eases in my knee I am anxious to get going again. Experience tells me however that I need to be patient. I am going to force myself to go at least one more day without running and then try just the block on saturday....well actually we're supposed to go to Teresa and Bretts that day so maybe I'll just run to their house instead. That can't be more than 100 kms!

Tomorrow I have to go back to the physio guy and then afterwards I will get a swim in. Funny thing is I hoped to have my swim endurance mastered by the spring but I actually feel like I have that discipline in hand already. Crazy eh? But it's good to know. If I get to the pool just 3 times a week through the winter I should be able to maintain and maybe even improve a little.

Once I get back to running I will keep my distance down for the next month or so to avoid the same problem, but hopefully by end of March have the mileage and my endurance up where I need it. I don't think cycling was an initial factor in my knee issues so hopefully I will be able to get back in the saddle again soon. Wish me luck!

I suspect that my wife kind of likes me being shutdown as I shampooed the basement rugs today in an effort to stay busy. I think the last time I did anything like that was 15 years ago when I was quitting smoking. I think I did a pretty good job too. At least it looked great with the lights out!

I wish to dedicate day 92 to my nephew Chad....a teenager I like...need I say more!


“Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished."---Buddha

"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."--- Charles Sanders Peirce

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