Running into the New Year! Week of New Year's.

[Urlea]

Hit my goal of 20miles this week and beat it by .5

Ran 8miles today and felt mostly fatigued during it making my pace slow. Not sure why. It wasn't a bad run, but not great either. Glad I got one last run in before Japan.

Figure I will take Monday off so that I'm not stiff for the 24hrs of travel we'll have between planes & trains Tuesday.

Keep up the running ladies!!

I'll be sure to post on my Japan runs when I get them in. (if I don't get to lost.)

[emily_in_nc]

I ran three times this week (normally I'm lucky to get two runs in). Two were on the treadmill, and one was a trail run as I was working from home and it was actually a warm January day - bliss! I got in about 10 miles total (each run was 3 to 3.5 miles). Unfortunately my left knee is barking a little today for the first time in ages (not really sure why, it was fine during all the runs and after them), so I am taking the weekend off from running and just doing trail walks. If my knee is pain-free, I'll try the treadmill again Monday at the gym.

[Tri Girl]

I'm just getting back to running after about 6 months off. I started marathon training last week and it's been going well.
BUT...on Friday, a kid at recess ran right into me sprinting as fast as he could (he's 11). He knocked me down and injured my knee... my bad knee that was injured 3 years ago and had finally healed. I'm icing and resting it, but it's terribly tender and sore. It's the outside of the left kneecap. Any advice on how to help it along?

[Crankin]

Well, a few years ago I had a large lump appear on my knee, with lots of pain, about 5 days after my very first bike crash. The ortho doc thought for sure I needed surgery for some terrible thing, but an MRI showed it was just a bruise, so he drained the blood that had built up. It felt very much like you described. Beside the icing, elevating, and Advil, I did a lot of gentle quadricep stretches. At first, I couldn't bend the knee very much and walking up and down stairs was painful, but the stretching helped a lot. After about a week it was much better and I was riding again after 2 weeks. It might take longer to be in "running' shape, though.

[kelownagirl]

Did an 'almost 5k" today. Still icey and snowy here so I'm running slooooowwwwwllllllyyyy...

[Tri Girl]

Thanks, Crankin. I'm hoping it's just bruised. Walking hurts so I know running will be out for a week or so. Hopefully the RICE therapy will work. I just got done having carpal tunnel surgery, so I'm not real fired up about going to another doc.

[OakLeaf]

Ouch TG, hope it's just bruised and that it heals up soon.

I did my longest ever run today, 7 miles. Plenty slow, but it felt fine even though I ran on mostly asphalt (wanted to get it done in the morning even though it was high tide). The concrete sidewalks didn't feel too good on my knee, but it was fine on the asphalt.