![]() I’m no doctor, and I still advise her to get it checked out by a professional health care provider, but that was my best guess as to what was going on. Her feet pronate (turn out) in her stride, so this can put a lot of pressure on her knees to try and compensate, which is likely to cause extreme discomfort and in some cases injury. The best I could do was turn to the knowledge I acquired studying for my CPT and assume she has PDS. I felt so awful for her and I didn’t know what to do to help. When I asked her how hers went, it made me sad to hear that she couldn’t get past four miles! I knew she could run longer than that because I have done nine with her and without issues. The week before the half, we ran our 11 mile training runs separately. This caused us to walk and even take sitting breaks during our longer training runs. The pain would come and go, but when it hit she felt like she couldn’t keep running. Only a couple weeks into training, she started telling me about the sharp pains on the outside and top of her knee. She has an extremely tight IT-band on top of signs of Pronation Disorder Syndrome. What I was mostly concerned about was her knee. I was more excited.Įndurance-wise, I knew she had this! She could easily keep up on our training runs and it was a challenge to keep up with her at times. We were in the 3rd wave and paced ourselves to run the half in 2 hours. The first wave of runners took off right at 7 a.m. (In the future, we will plan to leave way earlier.) We walked up to our predicted pace group with about fifteen minutes to spare before go time. and stopped into a hotel on the way to use the restroom before we ran. We saw the team flag walking over to the start around 6:15 a.m. It wasn’t the safest feeling, and we ended up parking and walking towards the start line to find our group a whole thirty minutes later. We intentionally passed the exit and eventually made it to a parking area close enough to the start line by taking any back road possible. in order to be able to park and make it to the Hope Water Project tent by 5:45 a.m.įor whatever reason, neither of us predicted or factored in time for traffic getting off of the highway and on nearby streets to park. We had a planned arrival time of 5:30 a.m. Word to the wise for anyone racing the Detroit Free Press next year… leave and plan to get there REALLY early. It was hard! Both of us were anxious and excited to get to the race already.īy 5 a.m., we were out the door and on our way towards downtown Detroit. wake up call, Alex spent the night before and we tried our best to get to bed early. I honestly didn’t care about my time this go around. I had a goal of racing in 2 hours in the back of my mind, but my biggest one had always been to cross the finish line with my friend. Knowing we could both already tackle six miles, I put together a 6 Week Half-Marathon Training Plan specifically catered to our goals. It’s amazing what you can train your body to do with the proper plan and motivation! She had never ran a long distance race before, and the longest distance she had ever run before training was six miles. I ran my second half marathon last weekend alongside my best friend, Alex!
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