Training Update: Running up to 30 minutes now
Over the past month, I've worked my way up from 20-minute runs every other day, to a 30-minute run (earlier today). I briefly plateaued at 20 minutes, then worked my way (1 minute at a time) to 25 minutes. I plateaued briefly at 25 minutes, then progressed (again, 1 minute at a time) to 30 minutes. As my runs increased in duration, my pace slowed a bit (to an average of 10:30/mile or so), but today I ran just a shade slower than 10 min/mile pace, so perhaps I am adapting to the increased load. After not running since August 2020 and going through knee surgeries in Dec 2020 and June 2021, it feels absolutely amazing to be out there running for a half hour again! I'm still feeling pain, but that has not really increased since I started running 15 seconds at a time last November. I'm concerned about the pain, but I'm going to stick to my plan, which seems to be working. So, what's next? In my last blog post I wrote, "As soon as I feel adapted to running for 20 min