My return to racing was not pretty. Those hills up in Van Cortland Park chewed me up then shat me out. I had a good idea what to expect, thanks to the Tweets from Joe Garland, but I had no way of knowing how poorly I would respond to the challenges of [...]
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It seems to me that weekends have shifted from a time of carefree fun to simply being a two-day recovery period from the week. When did that happen? Last night, I had planned on going out, but I was just so tired I couldn’t make it. I fell asleep reading a book at [...] I’m starting to worry that I’m not even going to have enough time to get ready for a proper marathon in Philadelphia now. I’m supposed to start my 18 week training plan tomorrow, but there’s no way that I can jump back into that serious of a regimen yet. My knee is just [...] I’m slowly working back into a normal running routine. I have 22 miles in for the past 7 days, which is nowhere near the 50+ I had planned on being at by now, but it’s certainly an improvement over the past weeks. On Monday, I went in for my first deep tissue massage / physical [...] I got the best birthday present ever today: a 5.8 mile run out in the afternoon heat without any serious issues from my knee. This came after a solid 4.4 miles yesterday. I couldn’t have asked for anything better. I feel like things might actually be headed in the right direction. Both yesterday [...] Although the doctor gave me the green light to start running again this week, I’ve been very cautious. So, for those of you who were worried that I would head out there with a cavalier attitude and make everything even worse, you can now breathe easy… I actually have some good news to [...] I went to the doctor today to get the results of my MRI. It turns out there’s more wrong with my knee than just the IT Band issue — I also have a bunch of fluid on the outer (right) side of my knee and a chunk of scar tissue sitting in the joint. [...] |
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