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Too much too soon?

Monday, 28 September 2009 | 05:28 pm

Last night, after a delicious supper comprised of leftovers, whilst watching (for the first time) Indiana Jones  and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD, and savouring a glass of ’06 Pinor Noir (can’t afford my fav Chianti Classico Riserva ’04 vintage, anymore :( ), my knees began to hurt. More accurately, my left knee. I’m not sure if it’s soreness or whatnot but that thing was hurting when I would walk and put weight on it. I remembered to R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevate) it and ended up R.I.E.’ing it as I was too lazy to find some athletic wrap and apply compression to it.

This morning it felt fine but I was still scared that I might have overdone my training (again). Months ago it was my calf, and this time around, my knee. I’m going to take some precautions this week and not do any of my training runs or get on the elliptical — I’m going to go lap swimming instead and do some upper body/abdomen workouts. Getting back into long runs “cold turkey” was a bad idea. LMFAO. Silly me.

Long Run Training: 11 miles

Sunday, 27 September 2009 | 05:06 pm

I ran my scheduled 11 miles this morning and I was glad it was foggy and somewhat cold (but not cold enough!). I don’t know how to explain it but there was an unpleasant sensation to my knees around mile 4 up until mile 5 but went away after that — or I could’ve just blocked it out with my super-saiyan-mental-strength. ROFL.

Also, aside from wasting 3 minutes refilling my water bottle and dropping a tablet of delicious berry Nuun, and the odd break running into people I know, I think I did relatively well (time-wise). So yeah, Garmin Connect will report that I actually ran 11.64 miles, whilst Nike+iPod will show you that I went over with 12.64 miles.

Oddly enough, my next long run’s mileage is 12 miles! I think I want to do it… Or maybe I’ll get lazy and taper it off to an easy 9 miles. We shall see…

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Training Run: 4 miles

Wednesday, 23 September 2009 | 10:05 am

Okie, I was supposed to do 5 miles last night but I got too hungry that I decided to turn around early — that and it was super dark and scary running down the Strand on a weekday (despite the fact that I mostly ran the path with my sister and our friend Lisa). Still, it was a good workout!

I finally remembered to bring my Nike+ iPod sensor, so I have some Nike+ stats and Garmin stats, as usual.

Garmin Connect and Nike+iPod.

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