Wow, yesterday's run sucked SO bad. My tenacity kept me going through until I reached my goal. My whole body felt slow and lethargic starting out, which usually shakes off after a minute or so but just didn't this time for the whole run. Ugh. On top of that my GOOD knee kept having this periodic snapping pain across the front of my kneecap. It would be so sharp I would immediately stop running and walk like someone had kicked me square on the knee. It seemed to be worse on the inclines so I figured I was over striding and quickly tried to fix the situation by playing a 180 bpm podrunner song and shortening my stride. It helped a bit but not totally. It was only when I put more pressure on my bad knee that my good knee decided to ease up. Crazy. I can't tell anyone about it because, really, my GOOD knee now?! Seriously WTH??
I did some Googling and figured out it's probably a bit of tendonitis so I'm going to tape the good knee and see if that helps today. Holy hell, I sure hope it does because, I don't know if I can cope with both knees giving me grief. I can barely handle one!
All this on my first day of secret marathon training. I say secret because I'll tell my husband nothing until I can confidently run 20km again without pain. Once I can do that I'll feel confident to tell him my plan to conquer the marathon again. This week my mileage is 5km three times and then a 10km long run. Totally manageable...as long as my knees hold up.
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