He ran 45 minutes every other night
and felt the runner’s highs
in all of the nightly runs.
He liked the coolness of the night,
the fewer cars on the roads he
ran on.
But then during one of his hundreds
of runs in his thirties, he heard a
snapping in his right knee
and he limped all the way home,
and saw a doctor the next day
who said his knee would be okay
after an arthroscopy a few days
later, and he’d be able to run again
just like he had for years.
The operation done, the rest, and
the rehab over, he started a new run
with his healed knee.
But after only a few minutes, pain
in his knee and his running
ended forever
with no guarantees another operation
would fix the knee completely
and could make it worse.
Bob Boyd