X-training

I'm not convinced that what I do can really be called cross-training, but it does involve doing a number of different sorts of exercise so that if one bit of me hurts I can stop doing X and spend more time doing Y.

And at the moment, "not doing X" consists of not running because my knee hurts. Quite a lot. I had an MRI scan a few weeks ago, which worked magnificently for a time as a kind of huge noisy and very expensive placebo. My knee felt much better, and better still when the GP told me that there was a bit of damage, but that it hadn't done badly considering how old it was.

However, now it hurts again, and I suspect I won't be encouraged to have another scan. Also, doing ballet this morning, which I thought might help, didn't.

What all this is building towards to to suggest that if my usual sorts of exercise aren't helping, I can do something else. I'll go to the gym tomorrow and do stuff that doesn't stress my painful joint. Like getting weighed and drinking coffee, and just possibly something else like weights or the bicycle. Not swimming. Some people are happy with swimming, some of us hate it.

But ballet was really good fun.