Jog On...

Its come to a head... I've been advised to stop training for 2 weeks to see if my knee can recover correctly before I am issued a consultant appointment. I have been taping my knee up thanks to  http://www.vickisportsmassage.co.uk/  so I hope this aids my recovery or eases some of the discomfort.

Once again the nice people at Compressport UK have sent me some more kit to test out and on first looks the kit looks amazing. I couldn't wait to test it out even though the weather has been so poor in the UK. As a triathlete I was really looking forward to using the first compression specific triathlon race kit on the market and as the previous product released by Compressport this had high standards to reach. I'm happy to say its another amazing piece of kit released by them. Triathlon Shorts Just like bib shorts, bit so much better than bib shorts.. I currently use the quad compression supplied by CS and I can only say how good they are and when I found out that same technology was going to be used in there shorts I couldn't wait to test them. I've used the shorts on the bike on the turbo most of the winter and they are unbelievably comfortable. There isn't to much padding on the rear of the shorts so there is no uncomfortable rubbing and the

29/04/13 - Turbo Session Start week with a quality turbo session but a big but.. on the power reps I felt a "tweak" in my knee, not a good tweak either. It hurt and made me stop in my tracks, I could feel a niggle through the remainder of the session, I hadnt felt a pain like that since I ruptured my knee ligaments about 10 years ago. I hope its nothing to serious... The set was 15 warm up 15 Max reps (1 min on 1 min off) 5 warm down Session Details Duration 00:50:00 Distance 11 Miles 30/04/13 - Rest Day 01/05/13 - Rest Day 02/05/13 - Turbo Session Low resistance spin, as the knee still doesn't feel right after 2 days away from any strain. A simple 30 mins easy session Session Details Duration 00:30:00 Distance 5 Miles 03/05/13 - Rest Day 04/05/13 - Free Run A lovely day for a run, sun shining, Oakley on and the open road for a 50 minute run. I was fired up for this run session, I don't know why I just was and I set