That means 4 miles at marathon pace. But it was not. 🙁 It was very slow.
I had this … tightness … on the inside of my left knee. I was feeling it a little bit after the long run and I felt it yesterday, too, but it was talking to me really loudly today. Instead of, “hey … I am the part of your body that doesn’t feel great,” it moved up on the scale to, “you really, really should be paying me more attention.”
I did keep running, though. And as you can see from my pace, I got a lot faster after I got warmed up. I think that our bodies are nice to us in that way, that you really can’t feel what feels bad after you’ve been exercising for awhile. Like, for instance, that 20-miler — I felt great all through it, and very sore the next day.
Google tells me that this is probably what is hurting me.
This injury is caused by a twisting of the knee when your foot falls. There were a few pebbles and branches I ‘ve stepped on the wrong way, and maybe the repeated pounding made it worse.
Or, maybe I should have started using the new shoes I already bought instead of my 400-mile old sneakers on that long run. Though I don’t see much of a connection (from Google, again) between under pronators and an MCL strain.
Fortunately, I am headed to my first Yoga to Run class tonight and hopefully I can learn some good stretches for this area. I’m working on scheduling a massage and, if its still bothering me tomorrow, I’ll walk my workout instead of run.