How’s your knees?

[Mistlethrush]

Hi everyone it’s good to make an effort! My only real worry is so much weight on old(ish) knees. How have you all found this on your knees or indeed any other parts 🤣

[RainRunner33]

I have bad knees to begin with, so I've been taking a bunch of steps to make this whole process easier on them. The most important one is exercises - I have a set of knee and leg exercises that I do before each run, which serves both as an extra warm up and to strengthen my knees and my other leg muscles to give extra stability. I'm also doing every week of the programme twice (at the advice of a trainer) to give my body extra time to adjust to each new jump in difficulty, and avoiding running on asphalt as much as possible.

If you're worried about your knees, I'd recommend doing some of the same - especially the exercises! I'm 7 weeks in now, and I haven't felt a single twinge of knee pain - when my last attempt at starting running ended after a week because my knee wasn't having it.

[Mistlethrush in reply to RainRunner33]

Thanks that sounds sensible I’ll give it a try