Tue 27 Jan 26: Wow -- almost closing out January. Eleven more to go --- Knee were a bit stiff today -- guess two days of rest were finally catching up to it -- next two of course will be relative R&R. Lap 1: 4:01 - nothing to see here. Pretty stiff tho, most of any since doing fast and slow laps Lap 2: 3:44 - still nothing of note. Stiffness still causing wobbly tracking but not pain Lap 3: 3:04 - shuffled half that lap; times commensurate. Relatively fast if not quite most-effortless lap Lap 4: 2:37 - jogged entire lap. Noticing my lung capacity is now an upper limit to lap performance, not the knee Lap 5: 2:20 - only 17 secs diff between 4 & 5, despite the 150-ft sprint (and only 5 secs quicker than yesterday). Down to pure exhaustion, methinks -- add'l stiffness in knee didn't seem to hold back progression at first... but lack of it 4 & 5 shows any stored energy were spent in 1 - 3. And as yesterday, they were done w/ attn to staying relaxed. After I'd reported someone stacking a 12-pk of Heinie bottles atop one of the retaining pillars on the top of the parking structure, right over the entrance to the ramps (stop cables go thru them to prevent cars driving off and nosediving 4 stories into asphalt) -- a slight gust of wind would've pushed several of them right thru some old lady's windshield. Took them down, stood them next to a parking stop, and had mgmt alerted to that and add'l shens going on up there (like dog feces left for months). Was cordoned off, stairwells and all -- I don't blame them one bit. People can suck steaming moos c**k, and now they've taken away my fave outside lap area to cooldown after the laps. What's more infuriating... is the same urchin who owns the dog(s) who crap on the parking structure, regularly leaves it in the mall upper level too. Turds on the drains, left to the cleaning staff to deal with -- like it's their f***ing right. Non-pet-responsible pieces of s**t need to take longs walks off short cliffs (w/o the pets, of course)
