I ran today, and did the whole W5D2 routine, but I probably shouldn't have. My knee is really giving me problems. Whatever is wrong with it isn't getting any better. It felt better after resting it Tuesday and Wednesday, but I knew as soon as I started my warm up walk this morning that this might be my last run for awhile. The only reason I continued was to see if the pain was just stiffness that would work itself out, or if it was something that was going to need more than just a couple days of rest to heal.
On the positive side, I was able to run (more of a slow jog (slog?), actually) 8 minutes twice. I was very slow because of the pain in my knee, but I did it. I slogged 2.1 miles in 31:40 which is a pace of 15:05 mm.
A friend who was a physical therapist in a former career says it's likely a medial meniscus injury. Apparently rest and ice is the way to go unless it's severe in which case it will require surgery. He said if the pain was minimal after just a couple days rest, it's likely that it will heal on its own with rest and ice. To keep running on it risks further injury and the necessity of corrective surgery. I think I'll rest it. He recommended rest and ice until I am completely free of pain.
I'm not sure when I'll be running again. I'm going to give it til Monday 8/16 and see how I'm feeling, but I'm thinking it may be the following Monday, 8/23. I'm really pissed because I was just starting to enjoy running again and I don't want to get that far behind in my training for the 5K on 9/26. If I can restart at W5D1 on 8/23, that puts me right on schedule to do the last run of the program on 5K day. I had really hoped for a couple extra weeks to solidify the ability to run 30 solid minutes before the 5k. Pushing myself now might mean I don't get to run it at all, so I guess I'm just going to have to live with it.
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