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enitharmon) wrote2006-01-19 04:21 pm
enitharmon) wrote2006-01-19 04:21 pm
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Coundown to Wokingham: 24 days to go
It's a little over three weeks until the Wokingham Half-Marathon, and I don't really feel up to it.
After last Sunday my left knee felt a bit tender, especially after I turned suddenly in the kitchen, so I rested it for a couple of days. Last night I thought I'd put it to the test at the Reading Roadrunners. That seemed a good idea as there would be plenty of people about if I needed support and I could pull out at any time.
I go off to a bad start. I almost didn't finish my first warm-up lap as I got breathless very quickly. After the session got going properly I did another two warm-up laps and that was better. I did them quite fast too - coach Pete said I was 'going great guns'. Then the stretches amd mobility exercises went well, and a session of four laps alternate jogs and strides felt good. I was tearing along the straights and my knee was holding up fine.
Then came the killer. Half an hour of leg exercises, a mixture of running up and down the steps in the stand interspersed with different kinds of squats. Ouch! OUch! Ouch! By the time we were dispatched for four laps of warm-down my legs had turned to jelly.
I slept deeply and all day today I've been stiff and aching in my knees and quads. Not pain though. I think my knees will be ok. Touch wood.
After last Sunday my left knee felt a bit tender, especially after I turned suddenly in the kitchen, so I rested it for a couple of days. Last night I thought I'd put it to the test at the Reading Roadrunners. That seemed a good idea as there would be plenty of people about if I needed support and I could pull out at any time.
I go off to a bad start. I almost didn't finish my first warm-up lap as I got breathless very quickly. After the session got going properly I did another two warm-up laps and that was better. I did them quite fast too - coach Pete said I was 'going great guns'. Then the stretches amd mobility exercises went well, and a session of four laps alternate jogs and strides felt good. I was tearing along the straights and my knee was holding up fine.
Then came the killer. Half an hour of leg exercises, a mixture of running up and down the steps in the stand interspersed with different kinds of squats. Ouch! OUch! Ouch! By the time we were dispatched for four laps of warm-down my legs had turned to jelly.
I slept deeply and all day today I've been stiff and aching in my knees and quads. Not pain though. I think my knees will be ok. Touch wood.