Feb 27: The knee pain

My nephew is taking part in the Tokyo Marathon on Feb 27th so I'm going to support him. I met him the day before for registration. I walked about 5 hours that day and felt something in my knees but it wasn't painful. Actually I wasn't really walking too much in terms of distance since I've been stopping and checking some exhibitions. Although the following day I can't bend my knees due to the pain. So I forced to bend it (by tolerating the pain) and stretched the muscles then I'm able to walk for a while but ending is the same. I cooled my knees and did some stretch and manage to finish the day, which ended up 7 hours of walking and standing. I suppose the total distance is about 10km.

Feb 25: Swim - 50m pool, 3:30-5pm

I took a day off today to get my eyes checked at the hospital. I wanted to get it checked because my eye sight has dropped down. Initially I thought it'll only take half day, but it was very crowded and every single check ups took time so in the end it took 6.5 hours. Apparently I have cataract and will need to have an operation. So I had to cancel Saturday's airline health check appointment. Therefore I probably won't be able to fly for a while, but want to be ready to fly by August.

It's my first time to go to the pool on the weekday daytime, and it's pretty empty therefore it feels good. There are only about 3 people in a lane. And this is in 50m pool, so it feels like only single person is there for 25m pool. I started swimming slowly and somehow managed to swim 750m without stopping. I wasn't expecting this so it felt weird. It's a shame I didn't measure my time! Then I swam 100m and it was 2 minutes so noticed that I have been swimming pretty slowly. I think it was like 2'20 pace. I should measure it next time. I feel so good that I was able to swim 750m.

Result: 750, 100, 200, 500, Total: 1.5km

Feb 20: Swim - 50m pool, 7:50-8:15pm

Today I swam in the pool in the 'hood. There wasn't much time and and it was freezing when I got into the water so I swam pretty fast. Around 200m point I slowed my pace and swam 500m. I feel it's easier than swimming in the 50m pool. It's probably the breathing and kicking during turn makes it easier.

Took the break for 10 minutes and swam another 500m. After that, I swam 25m each reviewing 14-stroke-front-style.

Result: 500m, 500m, 25m x6, 100m  Total: 1.25km

Feb 20: Run - 1km, 3-3:10pm

Normally I don't feel any pain around my knee area, but when I run, I feel it. Today I ran pretty slow pace but from the mid point both of my knees started to hurt (it has been only my right knee before). I tried to soften the shock and ran 1km. Afterwards, the pain was still there and I'm not sure if I should continue running. I shall put some support and will see how that goes.

Feb 11: Swim - 25m pool, 6:10-7:35pm

I went to the close by pool today. It's snowing but hasn't settled, therefore I thought the pool won't be busy as usual. I ended up going slightly earlier just in case but around 6pm was pretty busy having 3 people in a single lane. But from around 7pm there were less people so it was easier to swim.

In the next lane there's a 9-year-old-ish girl swimming, but she is SO fast. I'm jealous that she seem to be able to swim in many ways but even her breastroke is faster than my front crawl. Is it because she is fast? Or because I am slow? ...Persuaded myself thinking it's probably both.

Result: 500m, 300m, 300m, 500m, Total: 1.6km

Feb 6: Run - 1km, 7:50-7:57am

Today I ran 1km after doing a warm-up long walking for 80 minutes. I can feel something in the knee area so I started running very slowly, and around 500m point I tried to run normally but soften the landing of my feet. Time was 5'41'' which is pretty slow.

It's so cold outside so rather than cycling, I'm training with the inhouse roller machine everyday. I set time for 10-15minutes and 90 cadence and 10 minutes is all I can do. I will be drenched with sweat if I do more. I'm not sure whether I should practice every other day and practice for longer time. In the end, I'll need to cycle 30minutes for more than twice a week.

Feb 2: Swim - 50m pool, 6:15-6:50 (Change in target)

My initial target was to participate Brasschaat's Triathlon which is on May 29th, and I have been preparing for it but due to my work schedule I found out that I won't be able to take time off during that time. So I asked my Belgian friend who was going to participate with me, they introduced another Triathlon which is held in Sterkepeer in August so I'm going to attend to that one instead. We don't have the actual date yet but sounds like it'll be around 16th. I'll need to fix my calendar.

Today, one of the lane is booked up so it's a bit more crowded than usual. It's cold so I swam 300m pretty fast and then got stuck. I started counting the number of strokes and it was 42 strokes in 50m which I'll need to reduce the numbers. At the end, I was able to swim 500m slowly.

Result: 300m 200m 200m 500m  Total: 1.2km