Preparation H

It seems to be going around. Matt, then Dan, now me.

I’ve done something to my left knee. Started on Tuesday. Ran through it on Wed. Got 1.25 miles in on Thursday before I stopped. I’m good for a few miles, then pain starts on the outside of my kneecap. A few more minutes go by and it radiates down to my feet and up to my hip. Could be ITB. Not sure. I do know that I’m shutting it down until at least Wednesday.

Saturday was my 16 miler. Made it over the Brooklyn Bridge, and stopped to rest for a bit in Manhattan. Big mistake. I did do the entire length, but I walked quite a bit of the last half. Because I was walking, I got to overhear a couple of interesting conversations. Works best if you read them with a heavy Brooklyn accent.

Two guys on a street corner somewhere near 3rd Ave.
“The FBI don’t want nothin’ to do with it.”
“Yeah, they got otha stuff they gotta do.”
“Yeah. The thing is that I’m innocent of the charges! She had no right to come at me with the meat cleaver.”

Two guys sitting on a stoop somewhere on Dean Street.
“So I tell him, ‘Stevie, when soccer season starts, the U.S. women’s team can practice naked in my back yard!’ ”

Been reading a lot about ITB injuries. Everything about it is depressing. Difficult to treat, takes forever to recover… . If things aren’t better by Wed, I’m gonna try to get an appointment with a sports medicine doc.