Couch to 169K..... or bust

[Fellbeast]

Update:

This past week has been a bit of a rollercoaster. Last Saturday I tried another run in the hills from home and my knee was pretty rubbish, starting to hurt quite soon into the run and not really not hurting at any point after that. So a shambles then, about 4.6 miles of a mixture of rubbish fell running and fell walking

Things improved massively on Sunday with a 27 mile bike ride over into Littondale and back via Malham tops, with the ride preceded and followed by a couple of two mile dog walks. My knee felt good pretty much all of the way round and I only started to feel twinges towards the end of the dog walk in the evening. My knee again felt relatively okay on Monday too and I did a freezing cold 6.5 mile ride out on the bike (not wearing gloves was a big mistake) in the evening before taking the dogs out. But later that evening things went pear shaped and my knee flared up again and was really uncomfortable over night. On the back of that I knocked any plans for mid-week running on the head.

Anyway for the past couple of days my knee has felt a fair bit better, and I even threw in a 14 mile bike ride yesterday with no repercussions (as yet) at all. I'm not quite sure whether to feel positive, with the pains earlier in the week perhaps being the darkest hour just before dawn, or whether my knee is just waiting for me to try another run before starting stabbing again

My exercise efforts fall into four categories I guess:

1. A first thing in the morning exercise regime, including a fair few knee testers, Mondays to Fridays. These are now working really well, with all sorts of knee folds and knee squats possible that were impossible initially

2. Dog walks which on work days usually amount to 3 miles a day in total; 1 mile in the morning and 2 in the evening. My knee would always start to hurt towards the end of the 2 mile walk but, pleasingly, that hasn't happened the last couple of days

3. Bike rides where I now don't really feel any pain while out, even pushing it in a heavy cog. Two or three or four outings each week. I have had delayed reactions following big rides but they haven't seemingly lasted that long

4. Running - its still not happening, with the last run being crap although with a couple prior to that being slightly less crap

So I guess I can see real improvement in 3 of the 4 areas, but its the running, the actual thing that I most want to improve, where results still aren't coming through

Planning to run again on Saturday all being well and probably another long bike ride on Sunday. And see what happens....