Another successful run with poorly knee

After the triumph of Monday I set out this evening for another run around the streets of Tonbridge. Tonight I stepped up the distance a little to just under 8.5 km. To put that into perspective: the half marathon is 21 km so I at least need to have run 18 or 19 km in a training session to be confident of finishing. However, given the apparent seriousness of the injury to my knee I am still being incredibly cautious.

Uphill running is still way more comfortable than downhill running and I'm being very careful to land each step with a bent knee and (where possible) on the heel of my foot.

Tonight saw the first of my live broadcasts. For those of you who noticed my post on Facebook just before 6 PM you would have been able to follow me on a map with details such as my current pace and elevation. I believe you can even comment!

If you do not subscribe to Facebook, no problems. I will start to post the approximate times of my training sessions, so if you are interested you can visit the web page below and watch as events unfold:-

http://runkeeper.com/user/grahamtutt/activity/

This should automatically take you to my latest running activity. If you can't see my live training session it's probably because I'm a couple of minutes late, so just hit "refresh" in your browser after you've grabbed a cuppa and you should be able to see me run! I'd appreciate some feedback as to whether this actually works as I can't watch myself on the Internet whilst running for obvious reasons.

For information: my next training session will take place just before 6 PM on Friday.

I must say hello to Not Famous Tony whom I bumped into on my run this evening and stopped for a very brief chat. I suspect this is not the last time I will meet Not Famous Tony on his way back from The New Drum of an evening.

Also: hello to the slight mad and quite large bloke sat outside Whetherspoons who congratulated me on getting off my arse and running. I had to chuckle at the irony.

Finally: please please please would someone open the sponsorship on my Justgiving page! Remember: I'm running this half marathon to raise money for the PSP Association. I suspect many other people would have bowed out at this stage given the injury to my right knee, not to mention the problems with my left (MRI scans will be in a future post!).

I attach below a picture of my knees so you can see that even after 10 days the right one (on the left of the photo) is still somewhat of a mess, although miraculously doing me proud.

Yep: still swollen from top to bottom: and that was before I went running this evening!

In case you have forgotten, my fund raising page is at the following web address:-

www.justgiving.com/grahamtutt

Until next time... Nanoo Nanoo