Well, that was fast. Today I went for my run, and noticed that my knees were hurting every time my feet hit the asphalt. I never had knee pain when I ran before, but I've had two babies since then. Maybe something changed. I hoped that the pain would die down today, but they've slightly increased in pain throughout the day. Even just walking or stepping up on stairs is reasonably painful.
I have a feeling that my running gait is poor. I've never learned much about the proper way to run, and I've been reading up on it a bit today and I think that's why my knees are hurting. What I don't know is how long my knees will need to heal before I can try and learn to run the right way, because I don't think I could go 100 yards at this moment. Maybe just the weekend? That would be great.
I'm pretty bummed out about this. I was so excited to be able to run again, and to have time to myself early in the morning, and I feel like exercising just sets such a great tone for doing other hard things in life. Hopefully this will be a short lived set back, but maybe I'm going to have to take up something like yoga instead.
Maybe the kids will think that's fun too.Labels: Exercise, Personal Growth