February 29, 2012

For whatever reason, my left knee was acting up on Tuesday afternoon; I excused that to two days of running after a hard ten miles race.  I think that most likely I didn’t rest enough after a hard run. 

I remember I read an article a while ago on Runners’ World saying that ‘runners’ knee is not an injury and it is not a problem in knee; it is actually tired hamstring got inflamed due to lack of rest after hard workouts or runs.’ 

So I went home with half limping left leg, ice my left hammy as soon as I sunk my butt in the couch while watching NCIS, and then hit the sack around 21:30.  This morning, I woke up feeling recharged and sore left knee kind of gone away. 

I got into my office building around 06:45, quickly change into running clothes, and jog out of building.  Before I get into my gear, the radio said ‘43 degree in NW DC and partly cloudy’; I don’t know what happen, it turned cloudy and colder by the time I en-route to Hais Point.  It actually had gotten worst and started pouring rain toward the end of my run. 

However, I got my workout done, but I didn’t run exactly the way I had planned as yesterday.  Detail:

	Distance	Split	Minutes Per Mile
Warm Up	1.63	12m’01.63s”
Tempo 1	0.93	6m’07.28s’	6m’35s’
Recovery	0.30	3m’06.60s’
Tempo 2	0.98	6m’00.87s’	6m’08s’
Recovery	0.23	2m’58.93s’
Tempo 3	0.98	6m’00.90s’	6m’08s’
Recovery	0.24	3m’01.37s’
Tempo 4	0.94	5m’58.90s’	6m’22s’
Recovery	0.27	2m’59.58s’
Tempo 5	0.96	6m’01.10s’	6m’16s’
Recovery	0.23	3m’00.45s’
Tempo 6	0.98	6m’01.74s’	6m’09s’
Warm Up	1.46	11m’51.53s’
Overall Total	10.12	1h’15m’10.88s’	7m’26s’

Moreover, I think I didn’t run bad this morning; considering the fact that I ran a hard race just three days ago and I was running with caution on the knee, didn’t want get any worst.  Anyway, what a way to celebrate a leap day! 

I am going to run easy for the next two days and a 22-miler long run on Saturday morning.