Chad's Runs

I'm coaching my girl's softball team and it's taking up all my time.  Three games this week and trying to fit in all my work hours has been a challenge.  So now it's Friday and I haven't run for a week and a half.

This run went well.  All this time off has taken it's toll so I have no speed or stamina but I did finish with a 8:30 4th mile.  I was surprised.  My knee also felt good.  A little tender the first few minutes, but fine after that.  Certainly a lot better than the aches and pains I keep reading about from other bloggers.  I don't have any injury excuses.  I do plan on taking a little slow however.  When I've jumped right into more than 20 miles a week in the past I always develop some ailment or another so I'm going to take it slow. 

I was going to run a 1/4 marathon thinking of all those running the Utah Valley today, but I didn't feel very good after 2 miles so I turned around.  I felt a little sick but things improved after that and I finished strong.  Not as fast as yesterday, but I didn't expect to because it has been a long time since I ran 2 days in a row.  Knee felt good again.  I have been taking an ibuprofen before each run so I'm sure that helps with knee pain during the run.  I'd like to wean myself off of that.  We'll see how it goes.

My right leg has been tight since my run on Saturday.  It was still sore and tight last night so I decided to forego this morning's run.  I don't want to get back into training again with an injury.

Still slow, but fun.  Everything felt great.  No significant pain anywhere.  I ran an average of 9:10, which is much better than the 10:30s I was running when I first came back, but I'm still going to stick with these shorter runs for a while.  I'm scared my knee will get sore and swollen again.

4 more on the JRP after 10PM.  Fitness is starting to come back.  The tunnel under main street is still flooded.  6 feet or so, it's crazy.

Great run that RAD put together.  I didn't go the whole 12 that they did.  My legs just won't take that many miles yet.  We ran right by my house so I just stopped there and picked up my car later.

Even the seven miles and change that I ran were the most I've ran this year.  It went pretty well.  We ran at about the pace I've been running the 4s so I started to get pretty wiped out.  It's 12 hours after the run now and my knee is pretty sore, but it's not swollen so that's good.  It'll feel better in a few days.  I will probably take Monday off and run 3 times again next week.  I think taking it slow is still the best thing for me.

 Thanks Rachael for setting this up.  Running with friends is always so much fun. 

Ouch.  Me knee didn't feel so good this morning, and the pain didn't go away after it warmed up.  I really don't think this has anything to do with the original injury.  I think that my knee is week from 5 months of atrophy.  The pain is on my patella and it's probably tendinitis, but I don't know much about these things.  I thought I was taking it easy, but apparently I wasn't taking it easy enough.  Maybe I'll test it again on Thursday and see how it feels.