A touchy knee!

Ouch! What hurts more is not that it's hurting so, but that this is the most inopportune and ruthless time for it to. Am fuming. Quite rightly so. I mean, c'mon! Dont give up on me... you are my knee. Did I ever give up on you? When you wobbled, pronated, hurt or sometimes just screamed?

Well, here's the whole story. Or as much of it as is relevant.
Vikas, Rohan, Lubdha and I are running the Seattle Marathon. (I was to put my earlier notes on this up LONG ago...) I recently put up my profile and sent a (not-so)heart rending mail to those likely to part with a few dollars for the greater good of mankind in general. Well, I got all the, "Yup, u'll do it", "Will be there to cheer you on", and "Nice job" mails. Pleased as a punch that I hadnt (thus far) sustained any injuries (Rohan, Vikas and Lubdha all did), I marched on to impending doom.

When they say listen to your body when you work out or run, I think it's a joke. Coz if I start listening to my body, I wont take that step ahead. It's the mind that keeps singing 'Just keep running, just keep running' (in Dory from Finding Nemo style). So I dont trust it when my knee starts pretending to hurt, my ankle starts acting like it broke, or my lungs start threatening to burst. I know their games. How was I to know the ol'knee was serious this time round? Well, but sadly, it was pretty grim. And then grumpy. Coz after Wednesday's run, it refused flatly to bend (to my whims). Anyways, 'elaborate' attention, two days of 'rest' and some kindness have been rewarded with the regained ability to limp, hop and occasionally walk without making a picture of myself. Tomorrow is the usual Saturday morning long run. And here I am, pleading with my knee to behave itself. People passing by my office are wondering what I am doing...some of them had queer looks of pure concern. (I distinctly read the "Poor thing, been running too much... first the knee and now... tch tch" expression a while back). My dustbin is an array of icepacks, covers et al. Well, now who can say I havent been good to the ol' body?

Anyways, after all that, I had to let go this way. Here's a sigh of (comic) relief! ...High... er... Sigh..!