Still recovering

Here's been the schedule so far:
1. Monday - rest
2. Tuesday - Rock climbing (2 hours w/ a new running AND climbing buddy!). Some of those movements out of deep flexion? Painful to the quads.
3. Wednesday - run/jog. Great for the first 2.5 miles, then it felt like someone inserted hot pokers in my quads. Clearly still recovering.
4. Thursday - walk
5. Friday - walk
6. Sat - jog. 4.5 miles, average 9:30 pace, felt good! My quads are recovered, although my knees feel a bit... loose. Not sure how to describe it. I'm definitely going to start some mild weight training next week now that my legs are recovered. I really need to build my lower quads to protect the patella tracking.

7. Tomorrow: planned 8 mile run w/ new running buddy and Luke. A bit nervous, but generally looking forward to it.


Finally, this week I learned why you never run a race with new shoes. I picked up a pair of Cascadias at the expo and was psyched to try them out this week. Well, they talked me into 1/2  a size bigger and it was a huge mistake. The're ok to start, but w/in .5 mile I can feel that all the proportions are wrong and my foot was sliding around in the shoe like crazy. Normally my cascadias feel like a second skin on my feet - these? not so much. Pretty soon into the run I started feeling the effects on my knees. Not horrible, but not good. Fortunately, they'll let me exchange them for store credit which I will use to by the 9.5s. It means I didn't get the 20% off, but I need new shoes anyway so it'll be worth it for something that fits.

Does make me wonder how many people experience knee problems from too big shoes.