So...my knee. It's been giving me a bit of grief on the past few runs. I can't say that its totally my knee either, since my quad has hurt more than my knee, and at times it even gives out/spasms mid stride, which always leads to a fun little recovery. I've tried lathering icy-gel on it with a little bit of relief. I can't point to any one event that caused this issue either. I even went through my Strava logs to see if I've somehow drastically increased my mileage over the space of a month or two. But no, for the past 4 months I've averaged just above 250 kms for each month. Grrr. To add to the issue my other knee, just below the patella, has decided to kick up a fuss if I don't lather it with icy gel too, but modifying my stride seems to also help that leg.
It's frustrating. Especially now that I've finally got my long run back into the 20's. I haven't been doing as much weight training lately so I've resolved to pick that back up in the hopes it will help.
My frustration has led me to re-evaluate my goals for the summer. Doing a marathon no longer seems like a totally fun idea. I've looked around at the other events going on in the area and found an interesting endurance challenge; the Epic Canadian. I would run 6.1km (what's up with the 0.1 I don't know) on Friday night, then 10km on Saturday and finish with 21.1 on Sunday. All of the races are very close by and from what I hear the race support is great. The issue with that idea is the cost. To do all three will cost $181.00. Ouch. When you're used to paying $30 for a race, this amount seems ridiculous.
So I'll weigh my options. I could also not race at all this summer and train even more slowly up to the 50km road race on the Thanksgiving weekend. One thing is for sure, currently running 30km long runs is not something my knee is willing to go along with.
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