Wet run?

Full disclosure: I’m writing this yesterday. Otherwise I’d already know the outcome of this situation, see?

The story goes that I was given a rather nice, rather smart waterproof running jacket for my birthday. My birthday was a little while ago, but what with one thing and another, it’s taken a while to source the perfect jacket. After a few false starts, it arrived this week, and it is, as you will have deduced by the previous sentence, perfect.

Sadly, so is the weather, meaning that a run in a waterproof running jacket is sheer folly, given that there is no water to be proofed from.

But now here comes the good and the bad news.

A rogue October cold front heading into Cape Town today (tomorrow as I am writing this), is bringing with it several (or more) millimetres of water, in the form of rain. And this provides an ideal opportunity to test out the jacket. I was absolutely ready to go on a literal test run until last night (well, the night before last as you’re reading this) at about 10pm, when my left knee made at least some degree of contact with the corner of a rental trailer. The only real detail you knee-d to know about this encounter was that it was a genuinely unfair contest, with the few hundred kilos of steel trailer seemingly almost completely unharmed, and my outraged kneecap almost immediately pumping out an egg-sized haematoma in response. Was it my bad knee?, I hear you ask. Yes, of course it was.

Ice and rest and painkillers probably helped, and it’s just a bit stiff and sore. But while I managed a gentle gym workout yesterday (today as I am writing this), it does feel like any sort of impact work might be a bit much for the next few days.

And that’s sad, because the rain is very much just visiting for today and a bit of tomorrow, and I really want to test this jacket.

Watch this space. And avoid banging your joints on big chunks of metal.

Sound advice.