Happy Days

The Fat Ass 50k schedule I've been following has been working out really well. I've managed to get my average kilometers per week back up to 40+ so I've been very happy about that. On top of that I managed to get my pace per km down into the 6:30-7 minute range, which, if you had asked me a year ago, I wouldn't have thought possible with knee OA.
Has every run been a joy? No, and yes, sometimes I feel the bone slamming on bone feeling in my knee and other times it feels like someone is filling up a balloon on top of my knee. Neither is so painful to make me stop running and usually if I adjust my gait the pain or sensation goes away. So I progress forward.
I've also amped up my protein intake a lot so I think that's helping. I am tracking calories, fat, etc. and that's also going well. I had a few cheat days/meals but I try hard to stay on track. My husband even commented last night that I seem to have lost some weight (yay!).
So I'm feeling very positive about a 50-60km comeback next spring. My husband seems to think I'm crazy but I think I'll get him to come around in a few months, especially if I can manage to stay injury free. I complain much, much less now about my knee simply because it has stopped hurting as much.
Funny how activity, while it hurt for a long while, has actually helped stop much of the constant pain I was feeling. I still can't run in the morning, my worst time of day for pain, and I still can tell you a few days out if its going to rain, but I have my beloved activity back and slowly I'm feeling more and more like my pre OA diagnosis self.
As Buzz lightyear would say, onward and upward!