September « 2007 « www.arareko.net

The rabbit route

Yeah, I’m back into running! So my knee apparently needed a couple of more rest days. The test was to do a short 9 km before-lunch run at the parks and streets around the office (f.k.a. Chapultepec).

The knee felt really good, but my legs are kind of weak. I must switch into full tapering mode from now on. I have a bunch of miles ahead to cover…

Curious fact: is it only me who sees it or my route really resembles a bunny?

Real therapy

I just came to the resolution that I will not run until the pain on the back of my knee goes away.

It’s not that it causes me a lot of pain, but trying to run is only delaying the healing process. I prefer to loose the necessary training days and get back to marathon pace when everything feels good.

Hopefully, this long rest can serve as tapering before the next round of races…

Muérdelo Perro!! Muérdelo!!!

Last night, some of my friends from Yahoo! and I went to the wrestling arena. We had a great time, yelling at the fighters and drinking beer, it was cheap and funny therapy!

Back to ground level

Today was my first run after Mexico City’s marathon. The remains of the runner’s high vanished through the weekend and getting back to reality was an imminent situation.

My reality now is that I’m facing an injury at the back of my left knee, I have pain in the ligaments and the articulation. No, I didn’t got the injury while running the marathon, it was 20 minutes before it, while jumping a fence for going to the toilet.

As it always happen with accidents, they occur because of stupid mistakes. I didn’t had to jump the fence in the 1st place, if I had put more attention I could have seen that there was a door for crossing the fence and my knee wouldn’t hurt now.

Stupid is what stupid does…

So back to today’s run. I did one of my short (12 km) courses at Los Cipreses and despite that I ran at a conservative pace and I was very careful of not hurting my knee any more, I could evidence that the injury is not a minor one.

I’ve been on self-repair mode since the race, using ice packs on the affected areas 3 times a day, taking anti-inflammatory drugs and hydrating properly. It seems like these stage will last longer than expected…

Having fun as little children

Cova, Aline, Mau and I went climbing to Las Manzanas, a new area recently developed by some of our climbing friends.

Today was very cloudy (an imminent sign of heavy rain), but that couldn’t stop us from going there and give a try to a couple of routes. Just getting to the rocks walking through the forest was a pleasant experience since everything is really humid, green and full of life.

The rocks were more than wet but we managed to climb through a 5.10 stemming chimney, then fixed the rope over a 5.11+ face climb. After a couple of tries on the slippery face, the rain started to do its thing so we had to run out of the place.

Getting back to the car was an adventure by itself, the trail was so wet and slippery due to the slime that we had to downclimb some sections of it (even if it had no more than 20° of inclination!). We definitely had fun all the day long