It has been awhile since I last bogged

Sorry it has been awhile since I have blogged. I have been busy with Fall Baseball with my son and Fall Soccer with my daughter. Well, I tried to run 1 1/2 miles after I ran the 1st mile after injury. I made it 1.25 miles before my knee started it hurt. I stopped running and just walked home. Later that day at therapy, my knee hurt almost everytime I did an exercise. I kept going to therapy and took another week and a half off.

I went back to running and got 2 miles done. I ran at night when it was cooler. My knee felt fine, but I kept thinking about it while I ran and I thought it was going to hurt. I stopped after 2 miles because I didn't want to push it too much. I rested the next day and was happy when I woke up and my knee was not sore at all. I did ice it down afterwards for about 30-45 mins. After resting a day, I ran 3 miles the next time. It felt good and there was no pain. I iced down my knee again just to be safe. I awoke the next morning without pain. After resting another day, I ran 4 miles Tuesday night. The last 1/2 mile or so I had to work to keep my breathing down. Miss a month of running and you will lose your wind quick. I ran that 4 miles at a 10 min per mile pace. The next day when I got up, I was still pain free. I rested yesterday and tried to get ready for 5 miles today.

I tried to get up at 5am to run, but when the alarm went off, I hit the snooze button. It was still dark outside and it was hard to get up. I chickened out and reset the alarm for 6:30am to get up for work. I felt bad today at work for not getting up and made plans to run this afternoon before my daughter's soccer practice. Of course, this afternoon was warm, but atleast there was a good breeze. I started out and rain my 1st mile a little quicker than I had planned. I wanted to run around 10 min miles, but the 1st mile was 8 1/2 mins. I slowed down some because I knew that just starting back, I could never do 5 miles at that pace. I ran the 1st 3 1/2 miles pretty good, but the last 1 1/2 miles almost killed me. My side and lungs got to burning, but I pushed through it to finish all 5 miles. Five miles on the same road sucks. My rode is a little over .25 miles long and I am the 1st house on my street. So if I run to the end of the road and back it is 1/2 mile. I got really tired of looking at the same stuff over and over again. I have to run on my street because my wife is at work and I got my kids. They rode their bikes probably 4 miles of the 5 that I ran.

I plan on rest tomorrow and running 5 to 6 miles on Saturday. I want to run the Harvest Moon 10K in White House in October. I would LOVE to run the 1/2 marathon in Nashville on Oct. 4th, but I will not be ready for that. Maybe I can hit the 10 Miler in Goodlettsville in Nov. Once my knee is 100% and I am fully confident in it, I will start back to training for a marathon.


Running Log

Thurs. Sept. 25th 5 miles in approx 45-50 mins (My Garmin died after 1 mile so I have no idea on time)

Tues. Sept. 23rd 4 miles in 40:32 mins

Sun. Sept. 21st 3 miles in 28 mins

Thurs. Sept. 17th 2 miles in 19 mins