Knee Isn’t Having It
// February 2nd, 2012 // Comments Off on Knee Isn’t Having It // endurance, exercise, Mental Training, Progress, stretching, success, Ultra-marathon, Uncategorized
My knee felt fine yesterday (resting after 22 miles and a messed up knee) so I was feeling good about doing my 6.5 mile sprint. I stretched at home, jogged out front to warm up and I didn’t get 20 yards when my knee made its point clear, “There will be no running today.”
I’m going to have to hit the running store and get “The Stick” which I’ve heard helps stretch muscles and a stuck facia really well. I may be on “forced leave” for a few days.
Enter mental training. I’ll do some visualizing of the race and my strong, healed body for some of the time that I would have run.
Not part of my plan and I knew that something might go “off”. I’m not too worried. Not my preference, particularly as next week will be tough to get out and run a long while but…I’m not worried. Even the training is an endurance process not an event.
Thinking this way is progress for me.
