Today I decided to go for a longer run. I ran along 1st Ave (in order to avoid South Temple and all the parade stuff/people who already were set up to watch it). I turned to go towards the Capital and ran to a point, then walked up hill for a short while until I got to what I call the "Horse Shoe" (I believe it's actually called Bonneville Rd. or something like that). I ran all of that and it comes out on 11th Ave, which I ran on until I reached Virginia Street. I decided to walked down Virginia instead of run it because of my knee. Then I turned onto South Temple and started running again. Instead of going straight home I decided to turn on 10th East and run for a little longer. I was running alongside some of the runners for the Deseret News Run this morning while on South Temple. It made me sad that I missed the deadline to sign up for it (and that's another reason I really wanted to go on a long run, to make up for it). I ran until I reached 3rd South, and then turned to get on 9th East and go back home. I ended up mapping my run and the total mileage was about 7.39 miles. Not too bad, but take out some of that for walking.
Now to the tradeoff. As I have said over and over again, there is something wrong with my right knee. But it's getting much much better and that makes me smile. What I have noticed with my running though is that I can either have stomach pain, or a hurt knee (sometimes I get a little bit of both, but not too often). Today my stomach didn't hurt at all, but my knee didn't feel all that great. If I had the choice, I think I would choose the knee pain. Although the knee pain lasts longer and the stomach pain only lasts for a few minutes, the knee pain seems to be more bearable. I rather not have either of them, but at least I am still able to run.
Oddly enough I am sort of grateful for the pain. It sort of pushes me to be healthier and run more. My knee has gotten better as I have been more determined to run. So really it's just another challenge, and I love challenges. The stomach pain is a little different, so I think that's mainly a change of diet. So, that pushes me to eat healthier and cut out the crap that I shouldn't eat.
So even though I feel this pain.....I can see that it's actually helping me in the long run. I guess that's how a lot of things are in life. Pain is good for you. Embrace it and run with it. :)
Runaway Girl
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