06-05-2013, 08:58 PM
Ok, I`m back on my feet! Back with some fresh data, and of course a couple of new questions 
More or less recovered from the cold I ran into last week. Went for an easy 60 min yesterday. Felt great to be on the move again after five days without running. However, during the run I suddenly started to feel a minor, sneeky pain in right knee. I actually had to stop a couple of times, stretching and just wait for some seconds, then it was gone. But it kept coming back. However in the end, I managed to "get rid of it" when speeding up a bit. May it be connected to the fact that you use the forefoot more when speeding?
I don`t want to exaggarate this, but I`m on the alert as I`ve had some knee injuries earlier in my time as football player. I felt something similar to this in the other knee actually, during the first cycle, but this dissapeared again, so I thought it was only temporarily "adjusting sypmtoms" or something. My more conspiracy oriented half keeps whispering early sympoms of "running knee", which I really hope it isn`t. Had a minor feeling with it during downwards stair walking earlier today, but chose to go ahead with training, to feel how it reacted. Went first for the treadmill, 10-15 minutes completely without any problems or pain at all. Then went on with my ambition to perform the 4k time trial on a track nearby. Also this went along without any bad news from the knee. So most of the days experience seem to be on the positive side. However as I sit down in the coach tonight, I feel it might be something there again. Not much - not much at all, but makes me just a bit worried.
My plan is to start another cycle tomorrow, and I will be monitoring closely how the knee reacts. If I start feeling pain when running, I will report it for sure. Hopefully I`m just over-ancious here, because injury is my biggest fair at the moment. I know the chances are there, of course, as I`ve increased the training load quite substantially during the last months, but I also felt that all in all going through the first cycle went really well and without any problems. So perhaps this detailed report about my worries are a bit uncalled for, but I just want to stay injury free as long as possible, and be able to enjoy running
Ok, now for the 4 k time trial which I felt went fairly good. Didn`t know if I were to "max" the performance, or not, but ended running quite close to my current capacity, I think. The last km I increased speed slightly, and felt it was close to full speed at that moment. Still, important to add that I was in no way "exhausted" after this session.
KM time av.HR max HR
1 3:46.6 170 180
2 3:43.2 180 185
3 3:48.8 183 185
4 3:40.1 188 191
tot 14:59.0 179 191
I guess I`m able to figure out where to start with the next quality session then
As for this cycle (if everyhing turns out ok with legs), the plan is to adjust it slightly due to a couple of scheduled races. First I will need to skip the long run on day 5, when I`m bound to run a relay. I will run one 1800 meter leg and then later the same day a 1060 meter leg. With more than an hour in between...
So, not sure if I`m to skip longest run entirely, or maybe fit it into the schedule on day 6 or 7? This we may return to in due time. For now, I suppose the only thing that really matters, is seeing how the knee thing evolves. Hopefully all gone by tomorrow!
I`m also a bit curious about strenght training activity to prevent injury, especially knee related...
Buy for now:great:!
More or less recovered from the cold I ran into last week. Went for an easy 60 min yesterday. Felt great to be on the move again after five days without running. However, during the run I suddenly started to feel a minor, sneeky pain in right knee. I actually had to stop a couple of times, stretching and just wait for some seconds, then it was gone. But it kept coming back. However in the end, I managed to "get rid of it" when speeding up a bit. May it be connected to the fact that you use the forefoot more when speeding?
I don`t want to exaggarate this, but I`m on the alert as I`ve had some knee injuries earlier in my time as football player. I felt something similar to this in the other knee actually, during the first cycle, but this dissapeared again, so I thought it was only temporarily "adjusting sypmtoms" or something. My more conspiracy oriented half keeps whispering early sympoms of "running knee", which I really hope it isn`t. Had a minor feeling with it during downwards stair walking earlier today, but chose to go ahead with training, to feel how it reacted. Went first for the treadmill, 10-15 minutes completely without any problems or pain at all. Then went on with my ambition to perform the 4k time trial on a track nearby. Also this went along without any bad news from the knee. So most of the days experience seem to be on the positive side. However as I sit down in the coach tonight, I feel it might be something there again. Not much - not much at all, but makes me just a bit worried.
My plan is to start another cycle tomorrow, and I will be monitoring closely how the knee reacts. If I start feeling pain when running, I will report it for sure. Hopefully I`m just over-ancious here, because injury is my biggest fair at the moment. I know the chances are there, of course, as I`ve increased the training load quite substantially during the last months, but I also felt that all in all going through the first cycle went really well and without any problems. So perhaps this detailed report about my worries are a bit uncalled for, but I just want to stay injury free as long as possible, and be able to enjoy running
Ok, now for the 4 k time trial which I felt went fairly good. Didn`t know if I were to "max" the performance, or not, but ended running quite close to my current capacity, I think. The last km I increased speed slightly, and felt it was close to full speed at that moment. Still, important to add that I was in no way "exhausted" after this session.
KM time av.HR max HR
1 3:46.6 170 180
2 3:43.2 180 185
3 3:48.8 183 185
4 3:40.1 188 191
tot 14:59.0 179 191
I guess I`m able to figure out where to start with the next quality session then
As for this cycle (if everyhing turns out ok with legs), the plan is to adjust it slightly due to a couple of scheduled races. First I will need to skip the long run on day 5, when I`m bound to run a relay. I will run one 1800 meter leg and then later the same day a 1060 meter leg. With more than an hour in between...
So, not sure if I`m to skip longest run entirely, or maybe fit it into the schedule on day 6 or 7? This we may return to in due time. For now, I suppose the only thing that really matters, is seeing how the knee thing evolves. Hopefully all gone by tomorrow!
I`m also a bit curious about strenght training activity to prevent injury, especially knee related...
Buy for now:great:!