Running 1:35:00 [2]
(injured)
Very easy run downtown, through the less dense humanity around the Washington Monument and the fringes of the denser crowds heading to the parts of the Mall between it and the Capitol, and back in time to watch the actual ceremony and speech at home. Figured I had to go see what the crowd was like but being there during the main event was dispensable.
Felt ungood during this but would not have turned on injury flag for that. The injury flag is for the debilitating, apparently muscular aches and pains around the right half of my rib cage through the rest of the day, not continuously but caused by adopting many and various body postures I'm still getting a handle on (inhaling to the maximum is bad as is almost any position involving leaning my torso without supporting it with at least one arm on something solid). These were to some extent preexisting and can't have been helped by falls onto my torso during my two most recent long trail runs but something about this run (cold, pavement?) seems to have pushed them over a threshold. Aleve and a hot bath have provided some relief. My best theory at the moment is that I've got a broken rib.