Growing-up’s BodyBlog

Tomorrow morning I will be out running again, 5.7 km @ 75% Max HR.  Still afraid to do some more damage to my knee, but Sol y Arena is next in my calendar.

Yes, it is hard, it is on loose sand, the sun will be nearly 37C (98.6F) but (I hope) the tie will be low.  This week at the gym I will be giving a lot of importance to my  legs, specially to the muscles that hold the leg in one piece such as the Vastus Lateralis, and the Vastus Medialis.  Yes they look nice when they get big and fat but in this case I need them to hold my left and right knee in place.

My knee is responding well, I had no problems with it today at the office.

Tomorrow early morning I will be on the road, and in the afternoon light weights and Karate! Wee   Can’t wait, but then again, it is up to me to keep it at a safe level, an injured runner or karateca is worthless.  I will apply as Kaz suggested my moto in most of the praises and advises: Train smart.

Yea that sucks.  Last Wednesday while doing my leg-out
workout, my left knee started to hurt, very, very much

What happened?

I think I earned this pain just because, I start to adding distance this week.  30 km in two days, is way too much, I know the rule of adding distance, but I just wanted to be where I was when I stopped.  BIG MISTAKE!

This Patellafemoral pain just come not because of lack of cushion, but because though the mind is ready to run, the body requires to get use to it.  Lesson learned. No running for five days, first days, ICE, ICE baby ICE but now only ibuprofen and hot bands to help the medicine penetrates the ligaments.  So not even gym, there is something about the ibuprofen and your gut, they just don’t get together well, I will be dedicating some time to my car (was it) but also take my mother’s Honda to get aligned.  LOL all the things I should have done on my weekends, that instead are on a second place because of the gym.  Lifring and training has become such an important part of my life that not doing it this weekend, 12 km run, and cross training *today was chest, back and forearms day* makes you feel …
well not good.  Keep training smart, do as I say, not as I do

Links to the pictures:

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00382

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Knie_ct.gif