All good things must come to an end
And I think that my very short-lived affair with running may be going the way of the dinosaur. After last week's effort where I ran three nights in a row, my knees are killing me. I think they're actually getting worse, not better...
I only managed 2.5 km last night as my knees felt like they had cut glass between the joints. I was so annoyed because I was really enjoying the run too, but then I did another 35 mins on the cross trainer so that made up for it.
It's not rocket science, but still amazes me that now I'm not drinking so much, or smoking at all, I can push myself so hard at the gym. Love it. Take that stinky cancer sticks!
But yeah, seems like my dream of running a 1/2 marathon may stay just that, a dream... Am going to start taking gylcosamine tablets again, and doing more squats to condition my knees, and see how it all goes. Until then, its back on the boring cross trainer for me!
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I have no tips for looking after your knees. I wish I had. Mine are shattered.
Doing a half marathon is still a reality. You don't have to run alllllllll the way. Go for it!
no... sorry... three weeks running, but a month of no alcohol during the week (weekends still though) and nearly 4 months of no cigarettes - woohoo!!
I don't know about the 1/2 marathon... I'm doing a week of low impact exercise and then seeing how I go with a bit of a run...
I haven't tried a sports physio, but my knee problem had a lot to do with the fact that I wasn't fit. My kneecap was being pulled wrong (you have four muscles in your thigh that control your kneecap) because the strength of my muscles were unbalanced. So I needed to balance them out and even out my muscles basically. My doctor recommended some stretches to do so.. and that helped. I haven't had any major kneecap grinding in a few years. I still ache here and there, but that appears to be normal.
But I also haven't been running/jogging either. He and I had a long chat about whether or not running was good for me... and it wasn't. It was a little too high impact for my knees period. I've switched to different exercises like aerobics & yoga now.
Knees injuries can be a problem with running....so...let me introduce you to another very addictive passtime. Spinning. No knee injuries, good for your whole system and in fact it fixes your knees because there are no impacts. Start out easy though or you might tear some ligaments if you "attack" it right away.
I used spinning to prevent my knees from getting screwed up by karate. I'm the onlyguy I know who after more than a decade of karate didn't need any knee surgery or have any serious knee problems. Spinning is cool.