Was the word “what the *** am I doing this for”?
Good job, how long did that take?
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6km this morning at 5.15 pace. Was meant to be 11km but I bailed after one loop. i’ve been experiencing a bit of knee pain getting in and out of bed etc. Today I felt it about 5km into my run.
I’ve had knee pain before but this is different (and a different leg). It’s quite sharp and localised, it’s directly underneath and center to my right knee cap.
It’s worse at extreme bends, like putting on socks sat on the bed. It feels like the same pain you get from bad sunburn.
I’m wondering if all the kneeling from skirting board sanding and painting has caused it?
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YES! That will have contributed.
Honestly, be careful with sanding and kneeling.
I gave myself trigger finger sanding our floors and had to have two steroid injections and a short course of physio.
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With a view to getting back in the habit of Tuesday night track runs with the athletics club by the end of the month, I went down last night to join the road group on an easy or steady run.
Only one chap (who at least I know well) was running on the road and he wanted to do a tempo run around 7 min/mile so bit the bullet and set off with him. Up until now have been consciously staying away from anything above easy pace; so was a bit worried to trot off at that pace with no warm up. First 2 miles were uphill and into the wind … at 7 min miles and then we obv got quicker on the return back. Ended up doing just over 8km at 4:07 per Km. Encouragingly felt strong and this was off the back of leg circuits and an anaeobic wattbike session the day before.
Need to be careful rest of week to keep the running distance short (never increase both distance and intensity in any given week!)
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Sounds sensible PP, and good to see you back firing!
a solid hour of S&C last night for me, and i feel good today. It’s quite funny watching my left knee when i try to do pistol squats though. It’s bouncing from side to side like it’s in a Nadal vs. Djokovic rally. right leg is better. Interestingly though, on the second set it is a fair bit more stable, whereas i’m more fatigued. Maybe it’s getting the ‘right’ muscles firing properly.
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More like “fortify”
1 hr 33
When doing single leg squats I was advised by physio to only go down as far as I could while keeping the knee straight, as for me there was a risk of aggravating up the tendons attaching around the hip that were causing my hip pain. I had noticed this previously that some of my S&C sessions were leaving me with niggles, basically down to poor form. Might be different for you but I was able to gradually get lower over time with a stable knee.
Following on from above, this is basically it - any other exercises you could do before the pistol squats to get to this point without having to do them with wobbly knees intially?
Yeah i’ll tyr to think about this when planinng the order of the session. at the moment i just make it up as i go along, but i roughly know which exercises i know i want to do. The squats were near the end last night though.
I’ll bear this in mind though, thanks. Don’t want to make things worse, whilst trying to make thing make things better.
Managed 2 x 4K on the rowing machine this morning, with 2 minutes rest in between.
Then, due to a Coronavirus boycott, had the fast lane all to myself at lunch and swam 1.6k (as 3 x 400m, 3 x 100m, 2 x 50m). Managed to keep the 400’s below 6:20, so moving in the right direction!
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Eh? Isn’t the pool the safest place?
Chlorine kills everything, including the top layer of
My skin! 
Sssshh, don’t tell anyone.
Please tell me that’s not a euphemism 
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Big week for me. Re joined the gym/pool. Havent used it yet though.
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I went swimming on Tue eve, and could barely see more than a couple of meters ahead - they must’ve emptied ALL the chlorine in there.
Key question is - does it slow you down?
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Hoping to get my CTL back to 100 before the inevitable constraints/closures. Got to 99 yesterday, and sitting at 98 right now with swim & bike to do.
Glad I have no events booked until 7 June; not even sure whether the Outlaw Half (Bowood) will go ahead in early Jun (tbh I personally wouldn’t be gutted if it was postponed).
My Garmin vo2 has jumped from 56 to 58, guess that’s because now i have 6-8 weeks worth of consistent, if not spectacular, mileage behind me now. To be fair, the 4 race predictions they have for me are probably not far off (for one) where i’m currently at.
My CTL is sitting around 78-80 quite consistently now. though this doesn’t take into account the S&C work i’m doing (if that even makes a difference, i have no idea!). As i start to add in some more intensity i guess this will start to rise a little more. Need to remember to wear my chest HRM to get accurate figures though, as whenever i’m wearing the OHRM it thinks i’m just walking around the place as my HR is in the bottom ones! haha
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Nah, it’s all based on a single recent effort, you’re just running faster for the same HR.
Fair enough, makes sense. I don’t pay any particluar heed to it, just more of an observation. Weird how, for once, it actually looks reasonably accurate.
That was better. A nice 4 x 1km interval session for me, off the back of 18km steady last night.
Remembered about the ZFs as well so popped them on today. Much nicer to run quickly in them than the pegs. Managed 3.26, 24, 25, 23. So a big step up from last week’s debacle.
Still bloody hard to pace with this stupid wind though! I’m not yet dialled into my speedwork paces, so it’s really difficult to pace evenly.
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