I tried running again on Sunday. I tried some new stretches for my IT band and wanted to see if they made a difference. I didn't do very well. I had to take a walk break seven minutes in. Considering I was scheduled to do 25 minutes, I was pretty disappointed. I attribute the poor performance mostly to it being the middle of the day and somewhat hotter than I had grown accustomed to. After catching my breath I started to run again, got about 3 minutes in and my IT band started acting up again. I stopped running and walked back to the car, disgusted and fully considering just giving up altogether. I'm not a quitter, though. I can't just give up on something. It's become somewhat of a challenge to me now. I'm determined to be able to run a full 5k. I probably pushed myself too hard. I also took that ridiculous hike back a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure that's what started it all.
With that, I've decided to take a few weeks off running and let my knee completely heal. I don't want to lose the cardiovascular stamina I had built up, though, so I'm looking for alternatives. This morning I spent 30 minutes on the elliptical machine. It kicked my butt. It seemed to be more of an upper leg workout than I had been used to, almost like riding a bike while standing up. I tried to keep up a pretty good pace that felt similar to what I would be doing when running but when I got to the end it told me I had only done 1.1 miles. in the 30 minutes. If that's true, it was 1.1 miles of serious stair climbing. I was beat by the end of the workout.
I'm hoping to get some swim goggles soon and start this program:
Zero to One Mile
I'm not sure when I'll start running again. I'd like to be able to work my scheduled 5K on 9/26 into the C25K program somehow, but I'm not even sure I'll be back to running by then. My plan is to give my left left plenty of time to heal. Meanwhile, I'll stretch religiously and get in some cross training.
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