May 6, 2011

Running

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A few weeks ago, I started the "Couch to 5K" program. Sadly, by day 2 of week 2, my knees were out of commission. They started having so much pain, I couldn't even walk down the stairs in my home without feeling like my knees were going to give out on me. It stayed like that for at least 2 weeks and I was beginning to think I had done some sort of serious damage. Thankfully, the pain has now passed and I am excited to report that I was able to start the program up again! I picked up where I left off of in week 2, and it was a little bit disheartening since I should be on week 5, but I'm just glad that I can start running again at all. I guess all this exercise stuff was just a shock to my system. Hopefully my body can cooperate now that exercise is becoming more routine. It has felt so good to be more active again!

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Lauren said...

It could be your shoes! At least that was part of my problem. I got some different running shoes and no knee pain in sight. Good luck with running, I'm really trying to get into it as well!