I got in the pool for a little while tonight with our son – swimming around I managed to get some resistance exercises done which felt good. I hadn’t managed to get in the pool for a few days because of cool weather so it felt to get in tonight.
After I got him to bed I hopped on the treadmill to do my scheduled 5 miles and maybe a bit more – was surprisingly stiff and tight after having been in the pool for 20 minutes, so I had to take it easy and work into it. It took about 5 minutes to get settled and then I got into 1 minute splits – 1 minute at 8 mph and 1 minute at 10 mph.
By about the 15 minute mark though my right knee was hurting pretty bad and starting to feel like it couldn’t take weight. It did the same thing during the Manitoba Marathon about mile 14 and back in May before I hurt my hamstrings so I wanted to make sure I backed off and prevented a real injury.
After some walking and some test runs at 7.2 mph and 7.5 mph I eventually got back up to 8 mph by the 30 minute mark. At this point it seemed to ache a bit but was holding weight well so I thought I should give things a bit of a push. So I bumped things back up to 8 / 10 mph splits and stuck with that until the end of the 5 miles.
My best guess is that I was not running with proper form and that tweaked the knee because it seemed ok later while I consciously watched my form. It is still aching a bit now but it doesn’t feel like anything was actually damaged so here’s hoping it is ok for a scheduled 8 mile run tomorrow!
On a side note – I picked up Weird Al’s new CD today – Mandatory Fun – lots of great songs! A few work well for my running play list as well so that’s a bonus! I listened to the CD on my run tonight and it worked pretty well. I will be adding “Foil”, “Word Crimes” and “Tacky” to my running playlist for sure and I will see what else I add later.
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