I can still do it, I guess

45 minutes, 22 seconds of continuous running at Baker Park.
Four times around on the paths.
“Running” is debatable.
It's the running motion, but bog-slow.
More jogging; better yet, shuffling.
As I said to my friend Michelle in the Canandaigua YMCA exercise-gym, who complains of knee and back problems obstructing her exercise regimen, “I think these 66-year-old knees are gonna let me run again.”
She looked at me askance, as if to say “You're 66?”
“Yep,” I'd have said. “Probably in better shape than most my age, but still 50 pounds overweight.”
I used to run footraces, five-mile and 10-K, in my 40s; about 6 minutes 30 seconds per mile. —I weighed about 130 at the time.
“Too thin,” people said.
Seemed okay. My weight hung around 130 when I ran footraces. —I'm 5-feet 8&1/2 inches.
Footraces ended with my stroke October 26, 1993.
My weight started ballooning. It climbed over 200 pounds; at least 225.
A Physical Therapist suggested getting back in shape made more sense than prescription drugs, and I agreed.
I started doing it, and lost about 30 pounds.
Now I'm plateaued at 190 or so.
To me that's 50 pounds overweight. 140 is more like it.
I weighed about that when I had my stroke.
I ran a 5-K in 2008; my first footrace in years.
Bog-slow.
More important now was whether I could still run.
“Old college-try,” I said to our dog.
Pre-run stretching on the living-room floor.
Lap-lap-lap-lap.
“Let's boogie, Boss!”

• “Baker Park” is a fairly large park in Canandaigua. “Canandaigua” (“cannon-DAY-gwuh”) is a small city to the east nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away. (We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield, southeast of Rochester.) —The park is almost fully enclosed by six-foot chain-link fence, so is a good place to walk our dog. It's also fairly flat, so is a good place to run.
• I work out in the Canandaigua YMCA exercise-gym.
• “K” is kilometers. A 10-K is 6.2 miles; 5-K is 3.1.
• Our current dog is “Scarlett;” a rescue Irish-Setter. She’s almost five, and is our sixth Irish-Setter. (A “rescue Irish Setter” is an Irish Setter rescued from a bad home; e.g. a puppy-mill. By getting a rescue-dog, we avoid puppydom, but the dog is often messed up. —Scarlett isn't too bad.)