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| # Posted 2010-02-03 23:46:00 | |
| Johnny M: | This is great. If you don't push the knee to its limits on any given run, do you think you could add an extra run each day? For example, if you don't want to risk running for two hours straight, could you reap some of the same fitness benefits with two one-hour runs without taxing the knee too much?
I'm not suggesting you do this, just curious if this is a way that runners can regain their fitness more quickly while recovering from injury. |
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| # Posted 2010-02-04 00:07:50 | |
| spaff: | That is exactly what I'm thinking and planning to experiment with now that I'm back at this point. I was reading about Jeff Browning's knee injury not that long ago and this was the approach that he took. He even took it to the point of running 3-4 very short runs each day, which I wouldn't do, but it certainly is the same concept.
The funny thing with the knee is that it isn't always predictable. Running an hour felt good today and by the end I felt that structurally I could have kept going, but at the start of the run I wasn't as optimistic (ie. 20-30mins runs sometimes feel worse....or worse the day after). We'll see how it goes. The plan is to do a couple of short doubles this week, then slowly increase from there. Thanks. D. |
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