a bitterSWEET workout

In choosing to take today's run, I made the enormous mistake of missing a meeting I had planned to attend at my job. I completely, entirely forgot about the meeting. Now, I'm clearly disgusted with myself and consider it a massive time management failure, and I only have myself to blame. But I guess the best option is to consider it part of the past and look at the positive side of the series of events.

I ran approximately three miles to and from Stony Brook. The last time I did this short run my right knee was absolutely murdering me. Murdering me. And I know that's crazy because it is, but my knee was in rough shape. Today was wholly different. My knee felt perfect, my arthritis tame. Consequently, I turned things up a notch. I don't know how quickly I ran the miles, but I was satisfied with myself afterward, particularly when a man on Ruggles Street stopped to speak to me. "Wow, you're fast!" "Excuse me?" "I just took the train from Stony Brook and we got here at the same time. Unbe-unbelievable! That's amazing!" An optimal way to finish an incredible run. I've never felt fast or been called "amazing" so I was reasonably stoked.

Then I went to the gym and lifted, lifted, lifted.