I can't get enough of it. But it's got to be good sweet Texas Ruby Red grapefruit. Those yellow California grapefruit are so sour that I don't enjoy them nearly as much. Anyone out there prefer sour California grapefruit? ... ... ... didn't think so....
Didn't run today. But did a good loop yesterday (Wednesday). And on Tuesday I went back to Brookhaven for a run, only to discover that 1/4 mile of the trail is blocked because of a construction project. It turned out to be fun, though, because someone named Howard had blazed "Howard's Trail" sorta through the woods on the edge of the campus. So you could still do it (run laps), but only by doing a couple of stream crossings and some rock hopping and semi-sliding down and up muddy stream banks. Fun, if a little slower than just running on the track. Ended up doing 3 laps -- 6 miles. Might have done one more, but it was starting to get darkish, and I couldn't have done the detour, so I just stopped. It was enough, anyway.
I thought I had created a problem for myself on Tuesday's run, though. Climbing up a slippery bank the second of three times I followed Howard's Trail, I slipped a little bit and twisted my knee. I walked a little to see if the pain would go away, and it did. But not totally. Several times I had a weird pain in my knee. It felt sort of like my kneecap slipped out of place and popped back in place very quickly. That happened 4 or 5 times. I kept running (I've said before that my main "lesson learned" about running injuries is that I'm better off just ignoring them. This probably just means I haven't had a real injury yet. I'm in no hurry. No hurry to have an injury, that is.) and the pain kept going away.
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Then yesterday I was worried again that the knee would be a problem. Didn't turn out that way, though. Went 'round the lake with no trouble at all. It's always an effort to run 9 miles. But it's familiar effort. It really is fun. Once you get past the point where any running at all is really hard -- once you achieve a certain level of fitness -- it's fun. I think at least many people who are "scared" of running (and no, I'm not talking to any particular person here) should give it a try. It's hardest at first. That goes for each individual run, as well. Every time I go out, it's hardest for the first mile or 2 or 3. Then I "settle into a rhythm." The feet move, the arms move, the lungs move, and I enjoy it, partly for the running itself and partly because of my consciousness that I'm helping myself with every stride.
Way back when I started riding the bike (way back in 2000) the same thing was true. It took a while to get to a certain level of fitness, and then it was fun. I wonder if swimming would be the same way? I STILL haven't done anything about that. Stupid me.
I just deleted a whole paragraph I'd written about my feelings about riding and running. It sounded a little unseemly. I guess I will say, though, that I like riding and running and I like the fact that I can do it. If that doesn't make sense, that's OK. It makes sense to me.
And it's really, really late again. Seems like it's always late when I get this stuff typed.
'Nite.
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It is too hilarious that you think people who don't run (who have no interest in running) are "scared" of running. Funny funny.
That is *not* what I said at all. And as I reread the post, it's not even implied. Am I missing something?
You said: "I think at least many people who are "scared" of running (and no, I'm not talking to any particular person here) should give it a try. It's hardest at first."
I said: "who have no interest in running."
Potato/Potahto? I don't think so ...
;-)
I'm just saying I do not believe, and didn't say, that people who don't run -- or people who have no interest in running -- are necessarily scared of running. (That's what *you* said.) Some people are, though. They are the ones I was talking to.
For example, I do not think you don't run because you are scared of running.
Yet I've met people who've told me specifically that they'd like to run, they think it would be beneficial, but they are scared to do it because they think they'd get hurt or because they're worried that it's too hard to do. For me, it turned out not to be dangerous or too hard, though I had those concerns myself in the beginning. I think at least some of the people who are not running for those reasons should not be so timorous.
That's all.
;-)
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