March is significant, as it is when I first got an Ultrasport GPS watch (meaning I have some record of what happened) and it's when I developed Ilio-tibial band syndrome (more commonly known as runner's knee). As such I was building up the distance I was running from being limited to cross training at the start of the month.
17th March
Distance (mil): 7.8
Time (hh:mm:ss): 01:01:50
Average pace (min/mile): 07:54
This was the first long run I'd gone on since being diagnosed by a local physio. Overall it felt good, I'd been stretching 3-4 times a day and my knee felt fine once the first couple of miles was done. This became a bit of a pattern for the next few weeks, with miles 1-3 hurting my knee before it would settle down. Over time the amount of pain and the time it lasted for got less.
From what I now know a pain getting better during a run is NOT okay, but fortunately the stretches seem to have outweighed any damage I was doing, and I got away with it. Not everyone will be so lucky so get any pain like this checked.
I set out to do an hours run, and was happy with the pace. I was signed up to do the Cranleigh 15 miler the following weekend which was only going to happen if this went okay. Fortunately it did.
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