Round 2 not so cool, sellin

I hit the treadmill again last night for week 2 of my running comeback.  I added one more lap to the run to bring it up to a still measly 1.25 miles.  I felt pretty similar to last week, a bit cranky at first but as I warmed up it felt better, in fact for the last lap I increased the speed from 6 mph to 6.5 mph.  Well when I got home I had some discomfort in both knees.  Last week my left knee felt unscathed and my right one was the problem.  This week my left one was probably more uncomfortable than the right, I could feel a pain deep in the knee which from my vast prior experience felt like meniscal pain.   So I popped my Aleve and iced both knees extensively. 

This morning neither knee felt great but I could walk normally and they don’t feel swollen.  I will have to see how I recover over the next week.  I certainly don’t want to take one step forward and five back so I will be very conservative. It’s not the type of thing I can afford to ignore. I also have some sort of pull / strain in my lower left side in an area that I would imagine hernias could be.  When I do abs I feel it pulling there to a point where I stop.  I looked it over to make sure I didn’t see any weird bulge developing.  I’m running out of fingers to plug all the leaks in the levy.  When one body part feels better, another flares up.

Ali and I decided we are going to put for sale signs on the two lots we own in Lehigh Acres to see if we can get lucky and sell them.  The market is soft but we may be fortunate and find someone that really is interested in one of them.  The prices for the lots have leveled off and in many situations dropped dramatically.  My theory is all the old people that have been holding onto the lots for 20 or 30 years have been getting these new huge tax bills just like I have and are deciding to bail.  I see quite a few sales in the 20-30k range.  So my hopes are not high that we will get the 50k plus that we would need to sell them but who knows.  If we manage to sell them we would be able to pay off the equity line and step into a hybrid without taking a loan if we wished.  Those two things would knock over a grand off our monthly expenses which would make a huge difference.   

The blog just turned over 18 thousand hits during the past day.  In internet terms, 18,000 hits is small and insignificant.  But for me it’s not bad for an unadvertised blog that is normally just stumbled upon by surfers.  I appreciate the few that stick around and come back to visit.