A Glimmer of Hope???

Well, I think I may have turned a corner!  In the last few days I have been able to get out on a couple of runs and have felt good…..finally!!  Not only have I been out twice but I increased my mileage over 66% from one run to the next!!  Who says you should only increase mileage by 10% at a time??? Ha! In your face running coaches!! 🙂

The first run on Thursday was my first attempt at going beyond the 3km mark since my back injury.  Brutal I know to think that I am actually celebrating going beyond 3km but trust me the way I was feeling it is a big deal!  (I suppose that 60% increase in mileage isn’t really that big a deal after all)  Anyway, I went out and had it set in my mind to do 5km no matter what, even if I had to walk for 2km of it!  Thankfully I didn’t need to and I managed to get through the full 5km with only a small amount of discomfort in my back and knees. (God that makes me sound old)  Once I was done I resisted feeling too good about it until the next day to ensure that my back wasn’t going to take a turn on me but I was pleasantly surprised when it didn’t!  So then the decision, go again the next day or not??? How about not? 🙂 I figured that since I broke the rule about increasing mileage by only 10% at a time I should be careful. 

So I gave it two days and went out again on early Sunday morning.  Determined to go further yet again I set out cautiously optimistic that I would have no trouble getting past the 5km mark!  The result???  Well I made it past 5km’s; in fact I ended up going a total of 6.6km!  Another 13.8% increase in Mileage!  However it was not without a few bumps in the road, and by bumps I mean dogs.  (I will get into the details next time but lets just say that there was a couple of encounters with our K9 friends to add to the excitement of a Sunday run!) So overall the last two times out have been a success and I am feeling confident that I have turned the corner and am on my way to getting into some longer runs!