Quote Originally Posted by Kimmyt View Post
Have you thought trying to add some leg strengthening exercises to your training? I'm not sure it would work, but my thought is that if you did exercises that focused on strengthening the legs that the impact wouldn't be as hard to take. It's kinda like skiing bumps, running downhill is very high-impact, so you try to strengthen your muscles to support your legs during those impacts... not sure if it would work, maybe some squats and dead-lifts and those knee exercises....
That's a good exercise. Perhaps I should start doing squats when I brush my teeth again.

Anyone with specific suggestions for this?

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In the meantime, I went for a tempo run with my sweet partner this morning. Slow 10 minutes warm-up, then a pretty tough 20 minutes (85% effort and perhaps 90-something % on the last 5 minutes of that), and then a light jog to get home (another 10 minutes). Boy! was that painful - I ran way too hard for a tempo run - but it was fun in a way. I was planning to do intervals tomorrow but I don't think it's such a good idea anymore.

So my next run should be Sunday's 18.5 km.