Training Summary: 2/15 - 2/21

To my multitude of loyal readers (ha, ha), sorry I’m late with this. To say this week is off to a crazy start would be a huge understatement. Anyway, in saying that I hoped the week before would be my last week of having nothing to post in my training summary, I jinxed myself with last week’s post and wound up with another goose egg. I tried a run on Tuesday, which lasted all of 57 seconds. It went better than my attempt the previous week, but I knew if I pushed through what I was feeling I would have a significant setback, so I shut it down and resumed the waiting process.

On Thursday I got a little more diligent with my treatment again. I had gotten lazy with it, mainly out of frustration, but I knew I needed to get back on it if I was ever gonna get this knocked out. I jacked up my dosage of NSAID’s as well, and between the two I was actually feeling pretty good over the weekend. I thought about giving it a try on Monday, but life got in the way and I just didn’t feel like it after a long, tough day at work.

So that leads me to yesterday and my latest attempt to get going. I am happy to report that I finally had a good one! It was basically pain free. My shin was fine, which it should be considering I’ve been off over 15 weeks at this point. I did feel a twinge or two in my knee, but I was so focused on it that I’m not really sure it was anything. In other words, if I’d been paying attention to my other knee as closely as I was that one, I might have felt the same thing in it. Regardless, it was pretty insignificant, and I made it through 19 minutes, which I called 2.5 miles, wanting to do more. It felt absolutely great to be back running and not be hurting, and I wanted to just keep going for an hour or more. I knew that wouldn’t be smart though, and I also know that the real key will be how I feel today. So far, so good in that respect, as I’m walking around with no pain whatsoever. Hopefully tonight’s run will go smoothly and I’ll finally be on my way back. I’m not counting on anything yet though. I’ve been disappointed too many times to count my chickens before they hatch. I’m just gonna take it one day at a time, one mile at a time, and hope for the best!