After last month’s Long Beach Half Marathon, I ended up taking about 5 weeks off from running altogether. The race itself went pretty well aside from the last 3 miles where I bonked due to quad tendinitis, and have had to slowly nurse myself back into running. I managed to maintain my fitness pretty well with yoga and cardio at the gym, despite a few additional setbacks including the flu and a concussion.
Back in September, I had signed up for the USC Marathon Team before competing in LB and was saddened that I was unable to run with them the first four weeks because of the knee injury, then illness, then head injury. I was pleasantly surprised when last Sunday I joined everyone in Manhattan Beach for the Veterans Parkway / Greenbelt Park 10-miler. I had no idea such a thing existed and it was a fantastic run — especially coming off that amazing win from Oregon. I was feeling a little worse for wear initially from celebrating the night before, but overall felt good and the brisk morning air and light mist helped perk me right up! The trail itself is soft and covered in woodchips, and every 1/4m there are markers which is great since I don’t yet possess a Garmin. I felt good the first 3m and then the knee tenderness kicked in. Nothing that was going to stop me, but it was definitely annoying, to say the least. Prior to the run, I couldn’t walk without noticing some form of tension and tightness in my knee, but it had subsided even when working out the 10 days prior, so I was bummed but not entirely surprised when I came back. I managed to pull out 10m in 1:37:25 which breaks down to 9:44 per mile — not too shabby. Given the fact I hadn’t actually laced up for a real run in weeks, I couldn’t have been more happy with the results!
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