Took my 10 year old skiing this morning. We stuck to the groomer s and took it easy and my knee held up great! We got home around 1:00 and it was just too nice out to run inside, knee be darned.
I had heard the BST north of 12th street was pretty much snow free. So it wasn’t long before I was lacing up the trail runners and grabbing a gel or two and a water bottle, and to the skeptical looks of my wife, heading apprehensively out the door for a trail run.
I was so excited locking up the car I dropped my keys in the mud twice. I was worried about my knee, but it has been feeling great, I just didn’t want to be reckless and reinjure what has started to heal. Walking over to the trailhead I just kept repeating to myself, “take it easy, watch your footing, if it gets gnarly or snowy and you have any knee pain walk and head back.”
I took off up a pretty good initial climb, snow free, mud free single track!! What a blast!!! Legs were just flying, I pasted 4 mountain bikers who were climbing the same hill. When I got to the 1st technical descent and through the rocky, rough flat spots I was defiantly running with the brakes on a little, just waiting for pain in my knee. Nothing. Everything felt great! My pace increased and I just motored along on REAL DIRT up, down, through the rocks and a little snow. Felt like spring! I was having so much fun I didn’t even notice I had been going out for over an hour. The further north I went the more mud and snow to where I was running in pretty deep slushy snow continuously.
Turned around and headed back. Through all the climbs, snow and a little mud I didn’t break my run once. Everything felt strong! Best run I have had in recent memory. After a few missed and wrong turns, I finished up in 2:20. On the knee, I got a little careless in the last ½ mile and caught a rock wrong with my toe and tweaked it a little, stupid. Other than that very little to no pain!! YES! YES! YES! Still going to take it slow and I will be on the ‘mill most if not all of next week.
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