16 November
Easy run 9K @ 53:34 (5:56 pace )
Woot, there goes the 6:00 milestone for easy runs.
Bringing easy run to sub-60' 10K would be awesome, should happen in about a month or so.
Could have done it today, but fatigue started catching up around 8K so the last 2K would have not been easy anymore. They wouldn't have been all out either but they would have some kind of struggle, so I chose to keep going easy and stay true to my workout.
It's been a week that i have knee issues. My right inner knee hurts. It's not a new thing, here are 2 posts from last year that i had the same pain:
Had my right knee bugging after Saturday's run. Scary AF. Pain was minimal, but there, all the time, even at walking. I haven't had the slightest knee issue ever, not even once, so i have this mentality that is my knee acts up, it is.... athletic career ending event lol.
Didn't train at all Monday. Bugging disappeared, except from a sudden small reappear at night. All clear all day Tuesday so at night i squatted. No bugging before, while and after. Gonna do an LISS treadmill today and skip bball tomorrow. If all go well ill run again at weekend.
Also, it looks like this right knee pain that i mentioned 1,5 month ago is run-related and permanent. Whenever i run over 6 km it comes back. it is a 'sharp' kind of pain, like piercing it with a thick needle. It hurts about 1 day to 2 days after running, gradually diminishing as time passes and then it totally disappears. Also, when in the pain status, it hurts upon contact too, just like when you hurt touching an inflammation or bruised area.
On the bright side, i can live with that pain and i can run full effort with it too. Growing old an still going hard makes you get used to pain, everything hurts more and longer than expected, but you adapt to that and you don't even bother. You just gotta recognize the serious cases and go to the doctor. Oh well, lets see how this goes...
Those posts explain the conditions exactly, it is a deja vu 8-10 months later.
There is no swelling, inflammation, nothing, just a sharp piercing pain. It is weird. Does it sound familiar to anyone? Could it be stretching/tightness related? Run-related?
I sure hope it is not cartilage, that would be devastating. On the bright side, if it was cartilage, bad meniscus etc, it would't have completely disappeared and then just randomly hola me, right? I mean, i've been running 20-30K a week consistently the last 2 months, with long runs and hard runs every week. And there was no gradual bugging. Just out of the blue, bam, last Wednesday after the long run it started.
I will try to do some stretching, maybe even cancel tomorrows long run, switch it to walk or just rest.
