Couldn't believe it. My knee began to niggle at 20 minutes mark, focused on my form, slowed a bit then sped up. I checked my iPhone and I was knocking out of the park. The last mile I ran at 9 min 19 second mile pace!!! I monstered it. Went home and signed up for my very first parkrun next week. I'm going to resist the temptation to do a 5k over the next week. I want my very first outdoors 5k to be done at parkrun!!
Super excited!
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Most definitely. I'm ultra paranoid about my knees. I do stretches and strengthening exercises to overcome weaknesses. I run at a high 180 beats per minute to force myself to take small steps and not stretch my legs out in front of me when running.
To go faster I don't increase my stride or steps per minute, I lean forward... I know. Weird. It's a chi running technique. Before I did that I couldn't get past eight minutes without terrible knee pain.
Great reply Gazter. I've heard of chi running and looked at a couple of things on line about it. Will give it another look now, as anything to avoid further knee trouble sounds good to me.
Great run! You will love parkrun - take it easy for your first one (it is SUCH a good feeling getting that first pb notification the week after!). Do let us know how you get on.
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