Knee whine!

All I will do is whine about my knee, therefore, I will not be posting much and just reporting the number of miles I get done. Apart from a dull ache, I feel surprisngly strong and dare I say, it hurts more to walk than to run!!

Got 9.2 miles done this am. Totally resisted the urge to swim. Anything under 12 miles, and my body feels like its hardly worked. I barely broke a sweat :-(!

An easy 7.5 miles this morning. My knee, my knee :-(

I have been focusing on getting my speed back lately. It has been working.

Yesterday morning, I had an awesome run of 15.4 miles which took me 2hours and 3 minutes.

This morning, I mixed it up and here is what went down:
350 stair repeats 60 minutes
10kms as fast as I could - 48 minutes (my best 10k time is 41.xx on fresh legs)
70 sprints on the stairs.
All in all, this workout took me 2 hours - not bad at all!

I do however have a dull ache on the back of my left knee - I have been faintly limping for the past two days. It goes away after 20 or so minutes of warming up but comes back after an hour or so. I will mix it up by swimming tomorrow am and see if it helps.

People can’t understand why a man runs. They don’t see any sport in it. Argue it lacks the sight and the thrill of body contact. Yet, the conflict is there, more raw and challenging than any man versus man competition. For in running it is man against himself, the cruelest of all opponents. His adversary lies within him, in his ability, with brain and heart to master himself, his emotions and his pain.
Glenn Cunningham.

200 stair sprints 40 minutes
8 miles 70 minutes
35 freezing laps in the pool. brrrrrr

My knee still hurts!!!!

Catching up.

The running is still on. Saturday I plugged in 6.5 miles in 31 degrees with the sun shining fully overhead. This was done at 4pm. I took Sunday off - ate too many Jalebis (*sigh*) among other things. This made for a sluggish start this morning, but provided plenty of fuel for me to power through my workout this morning, plus some more. All is right with the world when I can spend a few hours sweating in the morning :-)

I measured my stair workout this am. I did to increase my stride length while running - If I climb stairs skipping, 3-4 stairs at a time, I find it helps, especially since Singapore is flat as a pancake. Anyway, I ended up doing a 1000 repeats in 100 minutes.
4.1 miles slow run - took me 35 minutes.
3.75 miles in the pool. 80 laps - water freezing and took me exactly 58 minutes. I am SO glad I can swim. I should admit that it takes alot out of me and I find it much harder than running. However, I try my best - which means, no stopping and if I get tired, I still go on till I reach a number I can live with for the day.

That is all folks. Its a beautiful morning :-)

P.S I am 32 days away from the Safra Bay run - hopefully it wont be as hot and I feel better about this run since it starts in the morning.