In an attempt to keep training (however minimally) while continuing to rehab my knee I went out for a short jog/walk yesterday afternoon around the Botanic Gardens. The whole circuit was about 4km, and as I had convinced one of my on-a-health-kick-but-don't-want-to-exercise colleagues to head out with me for the afternoon, the run component was around 1.8km (with small walk breaks). My knee held up reasonably however was feeling a little twingy in the last 200m of the run. It was taped by the physio earlier in the morning - I'm still not convinced that does anything either way but will leave it another day or so and see.
After watching some of the people out in the half marathon on the weekend I really would like to attempt it at the Qld Half Marathon in June, but that's five and a half weeks away and I guess it that depends on how getting back into training goes. I think if I want to be able to run that distance in that time without increasing my long run by crazy amounts I need to pretty much have a solid 10k run sometime this week. Perhaps if I just tell my knee enough times that it's better it will believe me? :)
Results from the 10k on the weekend are out - the official time was 55:10.9 (54:27.3 nett time). That puts me at #329 overall, 119th female and 34th in my age category. Despite the fact that I wasn't in any kind of state to do that faster I am still a little miffed about not finishing in around 50 mins like I was aiming for. But perhaps next time. There is always a 10k race at Doomben I could do rather than the HM (which may be a more realistic goal).
Today's session was much of the same: I ran about 3.5km in 20 minutes (so somewhat cruisy), but had to stop and walk a few times (traffic lights included) due to knee pain (not quite the sharp pain, but not the twingy ache either).
