Training Update: Long run now 5 miles. Tread hills progressing.
It's been over 17 months since my first surgery (rt. knee mosaicplasty and OATS) and nearly 11 months after the second surgery (partial synovectomy/patellar release/fat pad resection). I'm still improving (albeit very slowly). I'm still following an every-other-day pattern of running with a 6-day cycle that includes a treadmill "hill" workout, a long run, and an additional easy run. My longest run so far has been 5 miles (which took me 48 minutes to run). On my fastest days I'm able to sustain around 9:15/mile for a while...but most of the time I'm running between 9:30/mile and 10:30/mile. I can do 5 3-minute repeats of 8% incline on the treadmill at about 10:15 pace with 2-minute rest intervals of easy running. My stride has improved a little bit, but I still have much work to restore my stride. The incline work on the treadmill has helped, but within the next several weeks I'll start doing shorter and faster intervals rebuild my stride. Well...at lea