Terry's Running Blog

Noon at gym.

10 min bike

20 min eliptical and some weights.

Noon at gym

10 - bike,  20 eliptical,  and a few weight to humor myself.

Went to the Doc. this morning, they took X-rays and found out I have very healthy knees.  He said my knees have many more miles left in them.  He also said I have Pes Anserine Tendonitis, which is the swollen ham sting tendons that rap around the inside of your knee.  He gave me some stretches to lenghten out the tendons and told me to start running 2-3 times a week with a long run going from this Satuday of 8 miles to next Saturday of 12, then 16.

He gave me a perscription for Prednisone if strechting and icing don't do the trick.  I'm suppose to call in and tell him how todays run went and continue to call in weekly.  I should have gone in earlier but I was so busy and I thought it would go away on its own.

SGM here I come!

Noon run, sunny temp 75'

It felt great to run again and dream of running a marathon.  The tendons did ache but not bad enough to stop the run.

Time 40:00,  Mile avg. 8:00

Noon at gym

2 miles running 8:00/mile on the treadmill.  Don't tell my doc.  The pain was no worse than yesterday.

10 minutes on bike

10 minutes on eliptical.  A few weights.

Morning run, temp 58'

Dallas wanted to run so I went with him. 

Time 24:55,  Mile avg. - 8:18

Morning run, Windy, Temp 62'

I didn't notice my tendonoitis on the up hill but on the down hill it was raring its ulgy self.  I ran the up slope miles in the same time I ran the down slope miles just so my tendonitis wouldn't hurt as much.  My doc. said it was probably the down hill that caused it and to stay away from down hill running for awhile.

The Doc. started me on my cortoson type pills Friday.  Hopefully, the pills will kick in and at least temporarily take care of the problem as I try to stretch out the tendons.   

I'm not use to running 10 miles any more.  I was getting tired at the end.  I've run more miles by Sept 4th than I ran the entire month of August.  Hopefully, my body can handle the quick pickup into running mode.

Time 1:26:45,  Mile avg. - 8:35