Weekly Workout Schedule – 10.7.13 – Race Week

Last week’s schedule

Monday – ~~30 min run~~ actual: 3.8 mi run
Tuesday – ~~Rest~~
Wednesday – ~~5 Mi Tempo, inc Warm; 3 Mi @ 9:07~~ complete
Thursday – ~~Easy run~~ actual: 3.1 mi run
Friday – ~~Rest~~
Saturday – ~~12 mi~~ actual: 5.5 mi run
Sunday – ~~Hiking (?)~~ actual: Rest

All of my weekday runs went great last week. I was feeling pumped about running after Ragnar and my runs went really well.

Enter Saturday’s long run. I went up to the bike path to enjoy the fall scenery, kept on pace for 5.5 miles, averaging around 10 min miles.

When I hit my turn around point I felt a sharp pain on the side of my right knee. Running on it was uncomfortable and my knee would feel like it was giving out every few strides. I stopped my watch and decided to walk the five miles back to my car, because I didn’t want to take any chances so close to my race.

I got home, iced, stretched, foam rolled. Everything I’m supposed to do. I took Sunday off (no hiking, sadly) and purchased some KT tape (an impulse buy when I saw it at Price Chopper).

I’ve decided not to run at all this week. I just don’t want to risk injuring myself. Maybe this was just some freak pain that will go away (that’s happened to me before), or maybe it’s something worse, I don’t know. I’ve never had knee pain before so I don’t have anything to compare it to. I can’t help but feel frustrated that when things are going so well in training, I’m doing things the right way, and something like this still happens.

I do know that if it the pain is too severe to run through, I won’t push through the pain. There’s a slight chance that I won’t continue on if its bad. I know by now not to risk it and injure myself more. There will always be more races to run!