On The Comeback Trail

by Bryan on 3/23/2009 at 8:56 AM in Health and Fitness

Well, it’s been 3 weeks since I finished up PT and had my last follow-up with the doc. So far, so good. I’ve been diligently working on strengthening my lower body, while slowly getting back to running. After the first week, which I’ve already mentioned, I moved up to 2 miles, every other day (and maybe a 5K run on the treadmill thrown in for good measure) for the next two weeks. In the last couple of days I’ve moved up again.

My knee has been responding very well to the strength training and the easy, short runs, so this past Friday, I decided to bump up the distance. I really wanted to do 4 miles, and that’s exactly what I did. And it felt good. Ok, cardiovascular-speaking, it was hard in the last mile or so, but as for the knee, it was great! Following on the heels of Friday’s success, I ran another 4 miles yesterday—the knee still felt good.

Of course, I am icing after running, and that makes a difference, I’m sure, but all in all, I am very pleased with how things are progressing. I even went to pick up my copy of Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach, by Brad Hudson. In the end, though, I thought it wasn’t quite time to start flipping its pages. I still need to take it easy, and I should probably do my next few runs at 3 miles each, so that I’m not increasing the mileage too fast.

I’m soooo looking forward to some speed work and especially long runs!