Emmet: September 16th - September 22nd

Monday: 6 miles @ 8:26 pace
Tuesday: 5 miles @ 8:46 pace
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: Off
Friday: 7 miles @ 8:18 pace {general}
Saturday: Off
Sunday: Off

Total weeks mileage: 18 miles.

This week although the mileage is very low { even lower than the last two bad weeks}, I am happy with overall. The reason being is more to do with what has been hopefully sorted out and less focus on the mileage as I am happy to even get that amount in with how I was feeling.

Further on from the 6 miler I completed on Monday, Tuesday was followed by a lot of soreness & Wednesday led to a trip to physio. Although a lot of the pain was worked out of the knee Wednesday, it failed to yield long term results, as by Friday {after 2 days rest}, a completed 7 miler meant i was back to square one again. I had decided, with a struggle to keep a sensible head on my shoulders & rest up for the whole weekend {aside from working}.

I arranged an appointment for today {Monday 23rd September} with a more "sports injury related physio". In his knowledgeable opinion he states, as I thought that the change to a runner of less support, that is more designed for racing & my "adjusting of the mechanics" of this runner {that being the slight cutting of the sole for more flexibility of the runner}, had distorted what the runner was originally made for.

Also over-use of my muscles in this runner entwined with the self modifications is what caused the problem in my right knee. My right leg being the less dominant leg, was affected first by this. This in turn has created a swelling behind the knee & has a requirement of a prescription of anti-inflammatory medication & one weeks rest.

Also a bit of strengthening exercise's for my outer quad is required. This rest does not rule out 'doing my mileage on the cross trainer' so the plan is to do the time on the cross trainer that I should be running for the week.

Hopefully this is going to be the problem solved as its getting too close now for any more silly mistakes.

Fingers Crossed. I can almost reach out & grab Amsterdam it's that close now & one thing for sure I won't be letting go of it!!