Running

I didn’t make it to the planned 6 miles, but given that it was about 30º with blazing sunshine, and I was out until 2am the previous night drinking a gin and tonic or seven, I’m pretty pleased with the effort!

The knee seems to be holding up well, and today I upped the run to six miles without any problems. My legs aren’t getting as achey as I feared they might after the break in running, however my breathing has definitely taken a step back. I think for the next few weeks I’m going to concentrate on building my weekly mileage at slower paces before I worry about any speed work. Still, great to be back running without any injury worries (fingers crossed!)

The last assessment of my knee was perhaps a little optimistic, and the next day aches and pains had returned. Feeling rather fed up I initially decided to give it another week, but occasional niggles, along with a general apathy towards running brought on by this continuing injury and the awful weather lately, meant one week became three. Today though I was determined to venture out despite the 23º heat, and I’m over the moon to say the knee felt completely fine after two miles – no niggles, no aches, nothing! Fingers crossed it really is fixed now, and I get get on with training for my rapidly approaching half-marathon in October.

The past few weeks have been pretty depressing run wise. After a week of short 2 mile runs which didn’t seem to be allowing my knee to fully heal I decided to give it a week off and see what happened. However after over a week of rest my first run gave me knee pain within half a mile and I decided to give up and give it another week. The past few days really seem to have turned a corner with the knee so I set out for another tester today. Thankfully things finally seem to be getting there – there was a bit of a nagging ache after a mile or so, but nothing too bad and at the end of the two miles after a short walk any aching was totally gone. Fingers crossed!

My knee continues to improve – after the last run it felt almost totally fine the morning after, and today it was a lot longer in to the run before it began to ache. Nonetheless I decided to stay cautious and keep this run to just two miles. I treated myself to some new running shoes today. After trying a few different pairs on the shop treadmill I settled on some Nike Free 4.0 V2s – so far I’m really pleased with them, but looking forward to hopefully trying them out on some longer runs next week once my knee is sorted.