Listen up

As you may have noticed, I didn't do a blog entry on Tuesday. This was because on Monday, my right knee was aching and I ended up icing it for the evening. My right knee is the one that caused me problems earlier this year when I was training for the half marathon. I though to myself I am 4 weeks in to a 29 week training schedule, having done no running for almost 6 months, and I don't want to over do it and completely knacker my chances of running the big one in April next year, so I listened to my body and decided to give Tuesday's 3 miler a miss in order to rest my knee.

So this morning, the alarm goes at 0610 hours and I lay there thinking that I could easily use my knee as an excuse to miss this one too and just turn over for another hour's sleep. Then I thought that by doing that I'd just be kidding myself and making the next run just that little bit harder. So I rolled out of the bed, got changed and hit the street for a 4 miler. Again it was freezing this morning but it didn't take long to get warm once I got going. I managed to complete it in good time this morning, about 35 minutes or so, so I was pleased with that...and so far there's been no reaction in my knee. Again I forgot to run my cold bath last night so I just showered when I got back and I expect to ache a little more than usual tomorrow because of it.

Next on the agenda is 3 miles on Saturday before another 8 miler on Sunday. Next week it cranks up another gear!