Primordial Ooze

This weekend, I engaged in my first long run. By long, I mean that I ran for over an hour. Saturday was a gorgeous day and I found myself hitting the road around 1pm, probably my favorite time to go out. In my ears was an episode of Escape Pod, a science fiction Podcast I can’t say enough good things about. The episode that kept me going for most of my trip was called The Clockwork Atom Bomb and it was probably the best episode I’ve heard on Escape Pod yet.

Back to the run. I went to the second Bridge along the bike path leading to Jones Beach. I’ll post a live map to that in a few days. I’m now listening to the Podiobook, Infection by Scott Sigler and my free time is draining away.

Yikes, back to the run again.

After an hour, my knee started to “give out.” It was fightening considering a week before I was talking to a coworker who tore his meniscus. So, I walked back for the last mile. In the end, I ran about 6 miles (I think) and walked the last mile. 6 miles, holy crap! I never thought I would do that. And, I felt like I could have pushed myself easily to 8 but I didn’t want to find out what would happen to my knee.

So, I’ll wear a brace and keep my runs to 3 or so miles for the next week or two. This is fine, since I have a Tae Kwon Do test coming up and I’ll be busy training for that.

You’ think with all of this I’d be skinny.

In a few weeks, I’m going to throw it all away as I drink and eat myself silly at the  Indianapolis 2006 Grand Prix Formula 1 Race. Whee.