I'll be sitting on the bench for a while. I went for a short test run to the nearby middle school to vote. I kept a slow pace but I could definitely feel the pain in the back of my knee. It was not bad, and were I a couple years younger and dumber I would have just run through the pain. But I have decided to shut it down for a couple of days, enjoy the beginning of baseball season, get some projects done, and strength train my upper body.
So my time should not be a loss, and perhaps this little rest will finally put an end to my brief shin splints episode for good.
To be honest I will still probably go out everyday and walk a bit, perhaps jog a quarter mile and see how I feel. So I will keep my young blog full of posts, and I'll keep reading yours. But for now, Play Ball!
3 comments:
sorry that you are 'benched' but you are doing the right thing. Get healed and then hit it again.
You are hitting things pretty hard and while I am not all that experienced I know that most injuries come from doing things to hard to soon and building to fast. I am pretty sure my spring interval work is what caused my ITBS.
So I will give you what was told to me by a wise old runner that we all lose sight of sometimes. Through base comes speed. Lots of easy miles with no more then 10% "hard" during any given week. Rest now and keep that fall Marathon in your mind.
I was pretty sure I did have a pretty good base going into this. I was running about 20-25 miles per week. I guess the intensity caught up to me though. Live and learn.
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