Well I am back writing and I know that it has been a long time but I have been working more and really just sulking in the fact that I have not been able to run all that much of late. A lot of things have been going on and a month or so ago just went I thought training was about to take off and I was going to hop on the track and do a small workout, my knee started to feel a bit different. By the end of the week, I was the most sore that I had ever been and could barely walk after runs, I looked funny. I just kept pushing through the pain but it got to the point were I could not even bend my knee so I decided to take a few days off to see if that would help. I also decided to buy some new running shoes, my Nike Skylons have around 800 or so miles on them, not recommended at all. I was so excited to get out and just hit the road again, I had missed the peace and thinking time that it gave me. That week went pretty good, but the pain was there, but icing my knee actually made a big difference and I felt that I was on the way back. Dev wanted me to go on a 18 miler up Provo Canyon with him, so I agreed and was prepared to take a whole lot of medicine. I don't know if I was more scared to run 18 miles, because I had never ran that far or that my knee may act up and I may be stranded in the middle of no where for a while.
Well Saturday came and after a late night of watching "How I Met Your Mother", we woke up early to embark on this epic journey. I felt fine, my knee was not hurting but more like just buggy for the first little bit. Dev was probably sick of me talking but I had to keep it up so that I did not have to think about my knee. Provo Canyon is so pretty and the trail is so amazing, probably the best place that I have ran in a long time, conversation was great as well. We saw an old lady that was running with her dog, she looked like she could out run both of us. This was turning into one of my best runs in about 2 and a half years and we even went shirtless as we ran up a road that was off Provo Canyon. We were a bit scared of getting attacked by a Cougar but it was all good. The first 9 miles were alright, my knee was not all that bad but then we started to run downhill and you could say that everything just fell apart. As we stopped for water at 11.5 miles, the pain that I felt in my knee was off the wall and I could barely walk. I told Dev to keep running and I would catch up, so how did I overcome the pain. I started to sing some primary songs, it was pretty funny but it helped and I was able to catch up to him. After seeing some guy just tear it up with Crocs on his feet, it gave me the motivation to keep on going, but Mile 14 was the last straw. I stopped and about to fell to the ground, the pain was so much so I told Dev to finish up and I would just be waiting there for him to finish. Yeah, it sucked because other than my knee being super bad I felt so good, it was the best that I had felt in a long time and I was excited to see how I could push myself those last 4 miles.
The Ice bath in the Provo river made things feel a bit better but I was sure that I was going to be sore but I just did not know how much. The water was so cold and I was glad that Dev went first so I could just know that he had felt the same pain but the pain was only about to come. When we got back I could barely walk but the worse thing was that I had a date to go and watch the BYU baseball game. After a Denny's run, which was amazing, I headed to the game and just limped around. I wonder what people were thinking, I looked goofy. I have yet to recover from that so I had not ran until last Saturday when Dev and I had prepared to run 14 miles but this time was a different story. I made it about a mile, then the knee just took a crap on me. Yep, it means that I got to go the doctor, just pretending that it does not hurt doesn't cut it anymore. The marathon is a month away, so something has to get fixed or it will be the second marathon that I have registered for and won't be able to run.
Well Saturday came and after a late night of watching "How I Met Your Mother", we woke up early to embark on this epic journey. I felt fine, my knee was not hurting but more like just buggy for the first little bit. Dev was probably sick of me talking but I had to keep it up so that I did not have to think about my knee. Provo Canyon is so pretty and the trail is so amazing, probably the best place that I have ran in a long time, conversation was great as well. We saw an old lady that was running with her dog, she looked like she could out run both of us. This was turning into one of my best runs in about 2 and a half years and we even went shirtless as we ran up a road that was off Provo Canyon. We were a bit scared of getting attacked by a Cougar but it was all good. The first 9 miles were alright, my knee was not all that bad but then we started to run downhill and you could say that everything just fell apart. As we stopped for water at 11.5 miles, the pain that I felt in my knee was off the wall and I could barely walk. I told Dev to keep running and I would catch up, so how did I overcome the pain. I started to sing some primary songs, it was pretty funny but it helped and I was able to catch up to him. After seeing some guy just tear it up with Crocs on his feet, it gave me the motivation to keep on going, but Mile 14 was the last straw. I stopped and about to fell to the ground, the pain was so much so I told Dev to finish up and I would just be waiting there for him to finish. Yeah, it sucked because other than my knee being super bad I felt so good, it was the best that I had felt in a long time and I was excited to see how I could push myself those last 4 miles.
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