11.88miles
So managed 11.88, took the advantage of not really mile counting to go a brand new route and make it up as I went along, this was good and helped me enjoy it more!!
Stats I’ve worked out since I got back
1hr 10 was at the 5.5 mile mark
2 hours was at about the 11 mile mark
However
My knee hurts quite a lot. There where a few hills in the route (up and down) but I didn’t charge down any of the hills, in fact I felt I used them quite well. However, when i had 30mins left my knee started to be painful, I didn’t think much of it, apart from that I felt quite painful all over really! just in the way that my body was obviously working hard to keep me going. (this was probably between mile 10 and 11) It hurts when I walk, (it feels as though its twisted or something is in slightly the wrong place. When its bent its fine, it the making it straight that hurts, and hurts more over time. While I’m sat here, my right ankle is also a bit painful (though it wasn’t while I was running) My knee is a bit swollen on the right hand side of the knee cap (as i’m looking at it its at the 2’0 clock postion where the swelling is)
At the one 1hour 10 mark my left foot felt sore, (this is the one I got cramp in the other week) But it’s fine now and wasn’t too painful to keep on running on.
I’m going away for the weekend, and was going to go for a 3 mile run but wont now. I also was planning on going for a 9 mile walk, but maybe its not such a good idea with the knee? I’ve got to admit, this has worried me slightly, so close to race day. And the fact that its my knee too.Have put some anti-inflammatory gel on it (suggested by lesley broadfoot) and do have some anti-inflammatory tablets left from when my back was bad over the summer I could take if necessary. Should I buy a knee support do you think?
Psychologically, it was really tough getting the last 20mins done, partly because of my knee, and partly I just felt so spent!
A bit of a dampener on what should have been an encouraging run, it still is, but yeh…
Chloe replied:
You should be encouraged! That’s near ennough to the whole distance done!
Your knee is a bit worrying. Definitely don’t run this weekend. If it came to it – and I’m sure it won’t – you could not run at all between now and the race without losing any fitness so only do what is best for your knee from now on.
Take anti-inflammatories tonight and tomorrow and ice. Alwasy ice. It is the best line of defence against inflammation. Ice before you go to bed. It sounds very much like an ITB problem to me – please massage (or better still get someone else to massage) all the way down the outside of your leg. Work at it quite hard. Knee problems are very often caused by that being tight. Do this before icing your knee.
A support might be a good idea if you think the knee itself is weak, but not just because it’s swollen. If you have to plenty of moving around this weekend some tubigrip might be a good idea. That will provide compression to bring down the swelling and support to the whole area. It should reach from half way down you thigh to half way down your calf.
Let me know how it goes…
February 26, 2010 at 6:47 pm. Permalink.