Busted knees and blah days....

Nomi says...

So, going through Joy's list of suggestions...

1) Use the blog ...i'm sort of doing that, albeit inconsistently...

2) 3 weeks on and 1 week off runs...which is in the process...

3) Run with someone...i've roped Lulu into doing that with me...

4) Cross train on a bike on no-run days....i've got a bike, which is a good start...

5) Refer to reading material which might help with motivation...i've bought a book and read a few pages already..

6) Go to Canada...which is the best suggestion of the lot:)

So, i've changed shoes and done some of the above..so i decided to then change my running route a bit to add a bit of pep in it. Joy and i used to run in a part with a relatively flat surface. One loop was about 2.3kms. So me and her and sometimes Lulu would do loop after loop after loop like little hamsters. There's a hilly stretch in the park,not Mount Everest steep , but a nice slow climb which goes on for a few hundred meters and i decided to add that in my loop and with that , it would be a 3km loop. So i started doing that last week. My average time with this new loop is now about 58 mins. Which is still less than an hour, so it's ok.
I ran most of last week, but didn't run on this Monday...I'm sure i have a valid reason for not doing so, but i can't remember that right now. I ran on Tuesday and the yesterday.
This little hill that i run is followed by a slight downhill...so, after puffing and panting and feeling like Joy might in a lamaze class, i get to catch my breath by running downhill, which is fun....real fun..and i get to compensate for the time spent.

So while running uphill a few days ago, i felt a twinge in my left knee...i thought it'll go away. Well it didn't go away and got worse as i ran more. So after the 10k run, i was limping a little. But with rest and and painkillers, the knee felt much, much better. I took one day break and ran again today....well, i wish i didn't.
So days are just blah days....after only 10 minutes, i wanted to keel over the kerb and lie on the road...i felt sick, out of breath and just plain tired...did i do that? Oh no...silly me thought, " maybe if i run a bit more it'll go away " . Well, it certainly didn't go away. I felt worse and after only 5 kms, i had to throw in the towel. I sat panting, dripped buckets and buckets of sweat and felt like i had a hang-over. I felt like i was going to dissolve into a pool of sweat on the road....The only good thing was, my knee didn't hurt at all....
So , i guess sometimes, your body just doesn't want to run, and you can't force it. If you don't feel good.....just go for a good long walk, and run the next day.

Over and out,
Nomi.








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