Well, my goal of 90 miles did NOT go as planned for October. I only got about 40 miles in because of a knee injury. I went to see my doctor on 10/25. My doctor told me the think It's Runners knee and not to run for 3 weeks. I'm one week in and I'm really missing my running. I had an XRAY on friday but I'm sure it won't show anything. I also have to follow back up with my doctor on 11/29. That gives me about 2 weeks to get back into a semi normal running pattern and see if doing what I've been instructed to do helps. I hope. I'll have 97 days before my half marathon to get up to running 13 miles. I notice on a lot of message boards the people training for Halfs almost never do 13 miles. They stop around 10. I don’t feel comfortable doing that. I'd have to run atleast 12 or 13 to know that I CAN do it, but maybe I just require more peace of mind than most people.
So tonight I can start doing my low impact exercise. My doc had told me to not do anything for 1 week, and that week is up. It's almost some weird blessing that I won the YMCA membership at my 5K. Otherwise I'd have no bike or elliptical to do my low impact on. I'm certainly counting down the days until 11/15 when I can run again.
Oh, and I noticed that I never put anything about my first 5K I mentioned in the last entry. I did OK. I finished 80th out 150 but that was walkers and runners. I'm sure out of the runners I did a little worse. It was a Cross Country course and I've not been doing any of that kind of running (hills, wet grass, mixed terrain). My time was 34:33. I was actually really happy with it. While I was out running, I felt miserable. I thought "I'm not going to clear 40 minutes" I had forgotten my watch and had no way to know what time it was. I was also irritated with the amount of children running the race that did not have any ettiquette at all. They'd run/walk, and when they'd stop to walk they'd do it right in front of you. I might be slow, but I'm still a serious runner. Next time I wont run a race that allows small children to run in it as well.
Before I hurt my knee.. I did a second attempt at my 8.5 mile run. I cut 15 minutes off my original time and finished it in about 1 hour and 32 minutes. I was so happy with myself. I can really see myself getting to 10 miles soon after my knee injury is healed.
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