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[ajcepler]

I haven't done that much running since... probably high school gym, when we had to run the mile twice a year (my personal best was something like 6 minutes 13 seconds, and I was pretty proud of that).  Senior year of college, I took a one credit "jogging class," which was fun until I injured my knee ("IT band tendinitis

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[thecatinthehat]

Running you can do every day. It doesn't take that long for running muscles to recouperate, so you should be fine.

[rivka_m]

I've also started running again. Very carefully, with lots of warming up, to see if my knees will cooperate.

[ajcepler]

Warming up and stretching is presumably pretty important. I say that because I didn't do either of those, and almost a mile into my jog/walk last night, my left knee decided that enough was enough. I have a doctor appointment tomorrow (not sure what good that can do, but who knows). I later iced it and took a hot bath (separately). After my knee heals, I think I'll switch to biking...

[rivka_m]

yeah, so far a combination of proactive ace-bandaging, barefoot shoes, stretching, significant warming up, running on dirt and grass as much as possible, switching to a walk at the slightest sign of pain, and keeping my running distances shorter than I'd like seems to be working. Hopefully, if all goes well, I'll be able to gradually increase.

Also, I remember back when I biked a lot in DC, I realized that my running-without-knee-problems distance increased, due to cross-training.

Oof. We're all getting old and creaky.