Knee strengthening

[Stuart448]

If there’s one piece of advice ( besides wear sun screen ) it’s do knee strengthening exercises. Completed C25K, used Ju-Ju’s 10k plan, 5k Park runs, entered 100k ultra last summer and then pick up a knee injury in December. A few trips to the physio, several exercises and plenty of sessions on the indoor bike I’m now re-starting pretty much from scratch. From now on I’ll be stretching, warming up to the max and religiously doing knee strengthening exercises.

[Fit4life Graduate]

Totally agree with your two helpful suggestions Stuart448 .Knee and calf pain/soreness/ache is pretty much a 'given', with this running game and over working already weak muscles will only ever have one outcome .Fortunately I was pointed in the right direction very early on in C25K, so squats, lunges and calf work are the norm on my inbetween run days ! We don,t know what we don,t know and thats why the support and knowledge of our fellow runners is priceless in our quest to 'keep on running' !!

[Stuart448 Graduate in reply to Fit4life]

Thanks, I learnt the hard way, but will certainly be putting more effort into my “rest days”.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Wow... 62 mile ultra! Well done there. Sorry to hear about the injury... but thanks for posting I think it will help many.

Welcome back to running.

[Stuart448 Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Hopefully will help. Would have put a link on to exercises but absolutely clueless on how to. Slowly getting back and loving it again.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Stuart448]

Can just cut and paste the url.