Monday morning I ran an 8k recovery run, and on the hill back towards home I suddenly felt something tear under my kneecap and within 10 paces couldn't run due to the pain.
It felt exactly like what happened at the start of the year, leading to my knee surgery.
I went to work where the knee started to swell over the course of the day. Needless to say I was thinking the worst.
Luckily with the aid of anti-inflams things settled and I adopted a very gentle approach to the week, running all on completely flat grass surface of McGillvray Oval. On the flat, things are OK, but a bit of hill and it hurts. I can only presume I have a small tear in the fibrocartilage that has filled in the articular cartilage removed in my operation. This type of cartilage is much 'softer'/fragile than the original cartilage.
There should be a saturday 9k@4:15 session in there as well
So a 67km week, not bad considering. The highlights were screaming at a dog owner on McGillvray who's massive German Shepherd ran 400m to jump all over me while I was trying to do a 1k interval, and this morning's 20k with Clown - the 4:25 pace was pleasing.
As you can see from the crudely cut&pasted table, I'm trying Strands again for my running log. The first time I found it fed into my obsessive/TypeA personality traits too much, especially at a time when I was coming back from injury and really needed to be holding back.
This week, 10k track race is on the cards. I'm not sure if the 37:30 goal is appropriate or not, but I have found running on a track to be pretty fast, so I'll just see how things go. Clown may even decide to do a tempo ( or is that MP) run and pace me to 37:30
1 comment:
scary knee! ouch! hope that comes good. Dogs off the lead are a constant problem on the grassy ovals these days. I battle that one often, and sometimes I decide not to run due to how many dogs are there. But you get better at dealing with it. Its annoying when they mess up an interval. Thats a really good week. be interesting to see if you can go A-grade time (sub 38 minutes) on Friday.
I might be able to keep up on some of your runs, but I reckon your 9k at 4.15 and the long run with clown I'd be off the pace at the moment...and I'd have heaps higher heart rates. Clown is on fire at the moment, but with persistence, you can catch him up, as long as things like the knee behaves. Well done, see you (lapping me?)on the track.
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