May Day--the observation

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	Classic Sprint	Pull-ups	Dam Sprint	Start time
2 May	Park	49	54.30	5		09:58

          A beautiful day. A holiday recognizing 1 May. The park was full of people even at the late time when I began the run—10 am.  During the final sprint, I forced myself to sprint. My legs were hurting, but they weren’t giving me the grief that I became used to during the last several months of tightness and unwillingness to even move. Dodging around the puddles and broken concrete, while I didn’t achieve another record, my time was surely respectable.

leg pain

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	Classic Sprint	Start time
26 Mar	Park	29	1:10.38	8:30

                So I’m not running at Don Bosco anymore, I’m back to the park near my apartment. It’s the location of the classic sprint that I first ran 6 years ago. As you can see by careful observation of the statistics that are part of this blog, the results painted by the classic sprint are inconsistent at best, but mostly a sad.

The downward path. Magnesium?

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	Classic Sprint	Pull ups	Start time
9 Mar	Park	33	1:03.71	5,5,5, 5,5	7:43

         The results of the classic sprint were not under 60 seconds. Nevertheless, I felt good while running. My legs were not giving me sustained pain all throughout.  This leads me to believe, in my position of eternal optimism, that I may have turned a corner. I may be on the downward path toward free sprinting. 

arthritis

Date	Place of exercise	Duration	Classic Sprint	Start time
18 Oct	Park	30 min	1:02.84	08:40
25 Oct	Park	18 min	1:02.81	08:27

          So, I had some meetings with a physical therapist. We talked mainly about my shoulder and she gave me some exercises which I have been doing.  The shoulder is nearly well, but not quite.  During our last meeting, I asked about my legs.  I asked if my pain could be caused by arthritis.  She gave me a very diplomatic answer:  “Well you are a couple days over 20.”