The point of running, for me, is to live better. I put up with feeling sore one or two days so that the rest of the week, my back/neck/etc. isn't chronically sore, I have more energy, blah, blah, blah. Which means that if I don't pay attention to little things and I end up seriously injuring myself, I'm defeating myself.

Now that it is the next day, the knee barely hurts at all. The foot, however, is odd. I'm wondering if I came down oddly on a rock or something without noticing. It feels like someone whacked the bottom of my foot with a lead pipe.

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There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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