I run again

I run again... as normal as I can... without knee guard... for 5k... and no knee discomfort!

After reading a few blogs on injury these are what I picked up:-

1.  If you experience pain, stop for 3 days.  Then, run half of the distance.  If no pain, stop for another day and run with slightly increase (10% I guess) the distance.  If you experience pain, stop for another 3 days.  Try again.  If pain remains, see doctor.

2.  If the pain is better against time, it should be ok.

3.  Also, the most importantly is the post from Running Injury Free called The Basics of Jogging.  The main and most important idea I captured from this post is "Listen to Your Body".

4.  From another post in Running Injury Free, I came to know that you could get injured weeks or months before you feel it.

When I think back, I am actually following The Basics of Jogging when I started to run.  It is after I wanted to push to time, distance, that I eventually ended up have to stop running for awhile, which I cannot enjoy the feel of running for awhile.

Probably from other posts in Old Man Running, or some other links from the web-site, I was encouraged by the author's experience that he started to run at the age of 38 and hit his personal best (less than 4 hours for Marathon) in his late 40's.  That's my goal now!

I guess I have to spend more time in the above web-site.

My 5k run

This is my 1st 5k after the Penang Run 2013 two weeks ago.  I tried to run last week but I was force to stop, again, due to my knee problem.  During that try run, I just managed to run continuously for close to 2km without knee problem.  I decided to give myself more rest.  I was kind of worry about my knee but I read it somewhere (on running material) that as long as the pain goes away as time passes, it should be ok.  That is the case for me.

So, finally, I managed to run 5k this time.  Around 2km after I started, I felt a bit of knee discomfort again.  It was very mild and I just continued to run.  Luckily, the discomfort didn't get worse.  However, I was running with a very slow pace, ie 7min/km.  This is the pace that I run about 8 months ago.  I will start up slow again.

Hope everything is getting better moving forward.