{"id":2010,"date":"2010-06-07T08:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2010-06-06T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T02:25:51","slug":"running-good-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/running-good-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Running – Good & Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which do you want first? \u00a0Well the Good News is that I went to the doctor on Monday and she cleared me to run.<\/p>\n

The Bad News is that she wasn’t like, “you are healed” but more like, “give it a try and see what happens”. \u00a0Well after 2 runs totaling 3.5 miles the verdict is that my knee swelled a little and is hot to the touch so there is still something wrong. \u00a0Ugh.<\/p>\n

I ran 2 miles with Brad at Fort Snelling’s Pike Island<\/a> coincidentally\u00a0on National Running Day<\/a>. \u00a0My knee felt stiff, but it didn’t really hurt. \u00a0I didn’t notice anything abnormal when I got home, but we also biked pretty hard from Snelling to home.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a program I run had a booth at the Midtown Farmer’s Market<\/a>. \u00a0I have to help set it up and tear down, but a student and their parent are in charge of running the actual booth, so I decided to run home after helping setup and then we went back later to tear down. \u00a0It was a 1.5 and most of it was on the Greenway’s <\/a>dirt trail. \u00a0I felt fine on the run; my knee actually felt a little better than on Wednesday. But after wards it felt a little more swollen and was quite\u00a0noticeably\u00a0hot. \u00a0So that’s not good.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday I did my first ever open water swim. \u00a0A few co-workers are triathletes and are going to do weekly swims at Lake Nokomis. \u00a0I didn’t have anything else to do, so I went with and had a good time. \u00a0Open water swimming is so much different than pool swimming. \u00a0It felt really weird at first and even though I could touch (my hand actually hit the bottom once or twice) it was still a little scary feeling at times.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, my friend Brad was running the Minneapolis Marathon<\/a>. \u00a0Brad also just had a baby on Tuesday morning and was extremely exhausted. \u00a0He decided at Mile 18 to drop out of the race. \u00a0I can’t imagine how getting very little sleep would impact your marathon performance. \u00a0Great job Brad! \u00a0I had a lot of fun riding around on my bike cheering him and other runners on for the race. \u00a0I ended up knowing 4-5 other people out there. \u00a0I wore my Team World Vision jersey and one of the racers was wearing his and talked to me a bit. \u00a0His name is Jesse and he ran a 5:07 even though he tore his meniscus (again) before the halfway mark. \u00a0At mile 18 he said, “I’m going to finish, even if I crawl.” \u00a0After Brad dropped out, I decided to not ride back downtown to the finish, but met my wife at Lake Calhoun.<\/p>\n

On the ride there I got into a small pack of bikes and we were nailing 20 mph for 4-5 miles. \u00a0It felt good. \u00a0I ended up with 35 miles for the day. Crazy!<\/p>\n

This week’s stats are:<\/p>\n

Running – 3.5 miles<\/p>\n

Biking – 71 miles<\/p>\n

Swimming – 450 meters<\/p>\n

This week’s One Post<\/strong> is Running with Music in my Ears<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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