No One Said It Would Be Easy

1.9 miles in 25 min­utes, 32 sec­onds. I sup­pose that’s not too bad for a guy who has­n’t run in the 9 months since break­ing his foot.

I actu­al­ly did try run­ning a lit­tle over two months ago but start­ed wheez­ing and could not catch my breath. I ran about a block and a half and walked almost the remain­der of the 2.25 miles. I decid­ed to start walk­ing instead of run­ning for the time being, but then on one of my walks I got mugged and haven’t been out for a walk or a run since.

Today I start­ed out with a cou­ple of puffs on the albuterol inhaler. That seemed to make a dif­fer­ence, but the run cer­tain­ly was­n’t easy, and I took walk-breaks a few times, some­thing I used to not do at all. The huge dif­fer­ence between this time and two months ago is that tonight walk­ing on lev­el ground I was able to catch my breath and start run­ning again.

From now on, when I go run­ning the inhaler comes with me. For the moment, I’ll stick to short dis­tances. Maybe start adding on in a cou­ple of weeks, but right now I’m just try­ing to find my legs again.