Despite my personal desires to run,run, run, faster, faster, faster... my body has other plans. It's been about a week and a half since the HM and despite my attempts to convince myself to the contrary, my knees are still recovering. As I said before, I'm not getting pain, but I'm getting that-doesn't-exactly-feel-normal that could turn to pain/injury pretty quickly.
Following advice, I've cut my mileage to about 13-17 slower miles per week with walking, cross training or climbing on my off days. I'm also taking advil, rolling around on my foam roller, and doing leg lifts.
I've been paying a lot of attention to my body and I think I'm having knee problems because of my hip rather than my feet. Both hip flexors are tight and I think they're causing my legs and knees to track in a funny way.
It's frustrating b/c I want to be back out running and getting in miles, but I also want to make it through my next race w/o any injuries and a quicker recovery time. Very annoying when you can push your body faster than you thought you could, but then have to give it a while to recover for the push.
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