Yay!! A couple of little runs in the bag!
Went out with Mr TST on Saturday (he was on the bike) just to test the water really and see what would happen. Didn't have a route planned, just played it by ear. Mr TST watched that I wasn't slipping back into old habits with the knee flicking and said I was fine, which was good. Had a lot of niggles but they just seemed to appear and then disappear again so I'm assuming that was just things getting used to me actually running again. Managed a mile before I got a niggle I really didn't like the feel of, so we walked for a bit and then I tried another little run. It was still there so I decided it would be better to walk the rest of the way back. Iced it when we got in just to be safe. Some of my quad muscles were a bit twitchy on Sunday, but apart from that all seemed good. Then did another little run last night and thought I'd try a little interval session. Ran for three minutes and then walked for one, which with hindsight may not have been a long enough walk break! Managed two good sets like that, the third was a struggle and then a minute or so into the fourth set I got some knee pain so stopped as I had been pushing it and didn't want to take any chances. Managed 1.36 miles though before that kicked in so I'm hopeful that I can manage at least a couple of miles as a slow steady run tomorrow. If I can get a couple of miles in the bag then I shall enter for the GEAR 10k on 6 May; I did it last year and it's a lovely race, nice and flat, very scenic even though some if it is through King's Lynn town centre and it's very well supported so seems a good one to do. A friend has said she will do it with me, at my pace and if I need to walk thats fine, so I'm looking forward to it. Feels good to have something back on the calendar again.
Been doing my exercises every morning and am getting into the swing of them now without having to look at the bits of paper all the time! Well, I say all of them, actually it's all of them except two and I need to go through them again with my sports therapist as I don't think I'm doing them properly. Wanted to do a swim tonight, but Mr TST has been signed off work and needs to have a rest from driving for a couple of days so I shall do a little easy session on the turbo and see how things go