With trepidation I stepped out of my house this evening with my right knee heavily strapped-up and my hopes somewhat less than high.
The first part of my run is always down hill which ever way I go, and I immediately felt pain from the injury I aggravated last Sunday. However, with a semi-limp and a very slow start I actually managed to find a bit of a rhythm. I found that with small steps and care on impact I was slowly warming up and really starting to enjoy the run, although I kept thinking over and over again: "protect the knee".
I got careless on a couple of curbs and slightly over enthusiastic occasionally, but on the whole the run went well.
I found that downhill running is not good for my knee, but uphill running was positively pleasant. In fact, if you look at the pace vs elevation profile on the GPS data from my run you'll see that as I got warmed up I was faster on the uphill stretches than I was on the downhill. In part this was deliberate, so I could get a good work out with less chance of knee damage, but comfort really played a big part of it.
http://runkeeper.com/user/grahamtutt/activity/67698126
I'll sign off now. My next run is not until Wednesday evening. Fingers crossed my knees are OK tomorrow morning!
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