I mentioned this on another post, but I irritated my left knee doing squats last week. It wasn’t terrible, but I didn’t want to make it worse. The coach who wrote my current training plan suggested not running until the knee had felt normal for a week or so. It feels completely normal now, so I’m giving it until next Wednesday or Thursday.
I’ve been pool running every day this week. Wearing a floatation belt in the deep end and basically running in place. It feels aerobically comparable to running and my heart rate has been reflective of this. It’s emulating the motion of running, which hopefully helps. There’s more resistance from the water, but no impact on your joints. So it’s not bothering my knee at all. I’ll keep doing this everyday (except Sunday) until it’s time to start back up.
This being said, do you have any suggestions on running again? Maybe keeping the first few runs slow and easy, then kicking it back into gear? I’m hoping that the pool workouts will help preserve some of my running fitness, but there’s no way of knowing until I start back up.
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