So... been just over a week from my first marathon... things have been rather frustrating since then. On Monday I felt good, although my knees were sore. So I went for spinning class, I skipped the hardest parts but felt really good. Afterwards there was the weightlifting class, skipped those legs excercises as they felt weak. Then on to swim training, swam just 1km because my knees were starting to feel really bad. Onto soccer but there my knees just broke down... I couldn't run a step. Stood in goal and had a less than convinvincing performance. Although we did win all our matches.
The next day my knees continue to bother me. I could walk but nothing else. Went for a bike ride at the gym. Took 15km and aimed to go under 30 minutes, finished in 27 minutes, so that was fine. But the knees continued bothering me. I feel alright by now, but as soon as I so much as jog, my knees just scream. What kind of engineering flop is this? Who designs a knee that way??
Well, was BBQing with my best friend and his girlfriend last friday and she is a doctor. She did a quick examination and told me I really should talk to a specialist. I have been told that for years but now I finally decided to do something about it as I can not miss more than a week of training after every big run.
So now I have got an appointment with a knee specialist next monday. I am hoping he finds something wrong with my knees that can be fixed. This has been a recurring problem for years and I just hope it can be fixed and I can continue my race plan for the summer.
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Take time OFF after a marathon. Come back slowly. Your base will still be there, degraded a little but you will be able to build it back up to where it was with some effort. Good advice from the doctor. I'm glad you are going to get it checked. I usually take a full week off after a marathon, then in the month following that I run once that week, twice the next, three times the third week and then I'm back to running 4-5 times a week. Your body will tell you whether to pick up that pace, or slow it down further. You can take some recovery time off after big events, especially if your body tells you too, otherwise it will all come to a screeching halt for a much longer time if the weakest link (the knees) goes. Good luck!
True, true... thanks for the tips... it is hard to keep things in perspective when you train and talk with people that do ironmans for fun... and run marathons for a warm up... they are all back running, some of them even took 15km the next day and over 20km in the first week... I must keep my head cool and continue improving my fitness so that I don't screw up my Ironman 2009 plan
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