I'm back running again!

posted by curt, on October 2, 2007 08:14 pm

Well, I went back out running again for the first time in almost 3 months. My knees have been hurting me quite a bit since the middle of this summer. Toward the end of the summer it got so bad that my knees hurt me even when I walked up and down stairs at the law school. When that happened, I started looking around for solutions. The last thing I wanted was to have 80 year old knees for the next 50 years.

Once I started to investigate possible causes for my knee problems, I started to see some stuff about imbalance between quad and hamstring muscles. Knowing that my hamstrings and much stronger than my quads, I wondered if that had anything to do with it. So, I started doing two things: (1) stretching before I exercised (yes, I know I should have been doing it all along), and (2) biking and doing squats to try and strengthen my quads. While I'm not completely sure if it worked, I was able to run almost 3 miles again last night and come home without any knee pain. I didn't run again today, because I want to take things slow.

Anyway, I'll update on how things go. I'll be really happy if I'm able to keep running. For awhile, I was convinced that I would just have to give it up forever (or start going under the knife for knee surgeries, which I've never wanted to do).

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