Running Week In Review Part 14

During the week of August 16 - 27, 2007...

Last Week's Total: 85.00km (New world record)
Prediction for this week: 40.00km
This Week's Total: 30.00km

Surely, there's probably nothing that hurts than this. Just imagine waking up late at night, stumbling over to the can and without noticing wiping with this....and....OOOOUCH!!!

Knee Update

I only ran twice this week, 15km each. Both times I struggled, which is something I was expecting. But I wasn't expecting to struggle when I wasn't running.

Since we are on the topic of pain, I have a problem. My knee is an absolute mess, it hurts so much. The other evening I went mini-golfing with some friends, and I couldn't even bend over to fetch my hole in one's without using my putter as a crutch. Later, I had to insist to get my friend Gail to get them for me. Through all the years of running I have never experienced this much pain in my knee.

I guess with all the kms I have run over the years and injury was on the horizon. Some would say that the running has caught up to me, which is what usually comes from people who never ran. When you participate in any physical activity, you put your body at risk of injury. When I really think about it, I think I ran too much. In two weeks I ran 165 kms. Whenever you run, it's recommended that you increase your mileage by 10% a week, I did it all wrong. I increased my mileage by approximately %100. See what happens when I get to excited, it gets me in trouble.

As for next week's prediction, I'm not even bothering to factor in a prediction. Things are kinda messed up right now and I'm not sure I will make any distance except if I estimate 0 kms.

Back to the mini-golf...on the 8th hole, I bent over and really struggled to pick up the ball. The first thought that popped inside my head was "will I ever run again?"

Is this the end of my running days?

Stay tuned