My knee is finally on the mend, and I’m back to training. Sure, it’s not exactly the level of training I’m scheduled to be doing right now, and yes, my life still involves a very close relationship with my ice pack, but hey – I’m out on the road, and I’m moving again, so that’s a darn good start in my book.
My coach’s hope is that I’ll be back to fully running by this time next week. My hope is overestimating my recovery time and I’ll be back to running before then.
I headed out for the team run today because my coach wanted to talk to me more about the specifics of my knee injury and see if we could come up with a good game plan on modifying my training to keep me at a good physical level until I can fully run again. Technically I should have been running 5 miles today, but instead I did what was kind a cross between a REALLY speedy walk combined with a REALLY pathetic jog. But hey – either way, I was moving, I was moving quickly, and it felt FABULOUS!
The knee really didn’t bother me much at all during the hilly 3 mile adventure today. I would feel it a little on some of the downhills, but overall nothing bad at all! This is a big improvement over even yesterday, so things are definitely on the right track again.
Sure, I won’t be able to run my 8 mile scheduled run on Saturday, but maybe I can do my combo speed walk/pathetic jog for, I don’t know, 5 of the 8 miles? Sure! That seems possible. Not ideal, but I’ll be happy with it at this point. In the meantime I’ll be seeing a whole heck of a lot of fast walking, biking, and elliptical training until I’m fully recovered – which quite frankly sounds a heck of a lot more exhausting to me than my usual training. Makes me hope for that fast recovery even more.
I’m just beyond happy that I survived 3 miles tonight without pain – even if it wasn’t a true run. This is definitely encouraging! Hopefully the training momentum continues from here so I’m back to where I need to be in no time. Gotta keep the faith!
Keep on running,
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