...that's what I did today. Like I promised, I went to the gym to make up for yesterday's disastrous training session. And made up for it I did. Knee felt crap even though I'd taken 500 mg of whatever substance I'm taking to reduce irritation. I wasn't confident and in the stairs up to the actual fitness suite it almost didn't want to cooperate at all. But I had to pull through. Cycling went fine, then I took away the weights for squats like Mr Physio said - and it felt a lot better, however not good. Lunges also painful, but not to the same extent as yesterday. This pain was bearable. So I did all that. Then on to running.
I ran so hard and fast that I almost threw up. After 2.5 km at speed 10.0-10.5 I had to stop and rest before moving on to intervals. Could barely breathe and felt sick. Don't know if stamina is so bad and down, but it felt like a great effort. Knee held up alright, got better after maybe 1 km or so. Then intervals. Kept to the 60 secs intervals x5 and held speed from 13.5-14.5 km/h - great, great effort! Once I was done I was ready to throw up but didn't, thankfully. Again, great effort and good to see the knee holding up in running, even if it's acting up during strengthening.
Hopefully next week's sessions can feel a bit better as I will now be on painkillers (double recommended dose) for a week. Please, please, feel ok. Running next week promises 3 km + 30 sec x10 intervals. Yeah, not looking forward to that, but in a way it felt so good to be able to perform such an effort. Feeling the heart beat a million beats a minute, sweat flowing down the whole body, face flaming red, and legs urging you to sit down, lie down - anything!
And to think, a year ago I couldn't run at all.
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My pleasure.
ReplyDeleteAs for this post, you should tag it and read it back when you have a bad day. I know how good it feels to give your all and sweat like crazy and gasp for air. Glad it felt good. :)