"He's just trying to lull you into a false sense of security, so you'll injure something else!!!".
Well, EZ was on to something there. I had to skip my next scheduled run because my left knee felt all "sponge"-y. In fact, it's now been six days since my personal-best-matching run, and my left knee still feel "funny" ( and that's "funny - uh oh", not "funny, ha ha" ). I'm sure it's nothing a few more days of rest won't fix, but I've got to be careful, because the last time I tried to run when my knee felt like this, I hurt my knee so bad that I had to stop running for 2 months, and my knee didn't really feel completely normal until about 18 months after that.
On top of that, my left ankle is aching again, after feeling perfectly fine for more than a month.
Hmm, I guess the speed I need to run to match my personal best time is right at the limit of what my joints can handle. What's odd about this is that for about month prior to running at my personal best speed last Sunday, I had been running at a speed just 0.1 mph slower with no ill effects.
Oh well, at least I reached the goal I had been working towards for 3 years. At least I can say that I was at my best at 40 ( at least for a day ). I'll start running again soon. I'll just need to tread lightly ( both literally and figuratively ) when I do, to make sure I don't get any kind of serious injury.
Rich
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In the words of Weird Al Yankovic, "I hate it when I'm right."[*]
I sprained my ankle about eight months ago, and it's still not quite right. :-\
EZ
P.S.: * -- "Albuquerque".
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