Finishing the Triathlon, meeting Kathrine Switzer, joining the Boreal Club... all these things gave me a renewed excitement about running. I was going to break 30 minutes for my 5k, I was going to get a new 10k record... I was going to keep improving and enjoy my runs. That was the plan.
During my very first Boreal Team training the program called for a very lengthy workout. Since I was already the slowest I wanted to make sure that no matter happened I would finished. I may not win them over by being the most impressive with my speed, but I would win them over with my perseverance, my unwillingness to quit...
Unfortunately my body had a different plan. Most runners know, that as a general rule of thumb you should only increase your distance by roughly 10%. In August I was averaging between 5k and 8k during my weekly runs, yet on this training day in August we ran the equivalent of 13 km on the track. That's when I started feeling it. The pain under my knee cap. Damn.
It has been almost a month and a half now, and the pain is still there. Patellofemoral pain syndrome, AKA Runners Knee. Apparently that's what I have. Going to Physio, using K tape, IT band stripping, Quad stretches, Glut exercises... Hopefully I will be running again soon, but for now I have to tolerate running 2 minutes, and walking 5 minutes.
