I'm really feeling my age these days

I was at the mosque just now and I actually had trouble getting up! My legs are so sore and what was worse was that my left knee cap started hurting. This is the same feeling I got when I first started running and the muscles around my knees were still fresh and not used to the strain yet. This feeling has recently re-surfaced and I am really feeling my age these days.

We ran the SCSM 2009 and looked around at the finishers to the half and full. Physically, they looked like "mere mortals" ie not unlike myself. Of course what is vastly different from the 99.9% of the population is their mental strength and no doubt their running prowess and ability is supreme. The point to all of this is that if they could do it, there was no reason why I could not, with proper hard training. So the journey to complete a half started in mid-December 2009.

To borrow an old saying, "short runs used to be my long runs".

I started out on a LSD Thursday last and it ended up being a longish distance tempo. Came back in a fairly decent time and I have been aching. Total rest yesterday (and then again, how can there be total rest when Jamie and Nisa arrived with 3 other kids in tow) and this morning went for a recovery run. The knees simply refused to move today and after 5.5k, i walked the last 1.5k. I'm really feeling my age now because every part of me is sore. I couldn't get up whilst at the mosque. Even the afternoon snooze was best described as "heavy" - the feeling that everything is weighted down and no amount of energy can get me up from bed, all of this in-between fleeting sleep.

Looks like I just have to seek out another recovery session tomorrow - I plan to do another 6k recovery early to catch the sun rise over the ECP tomorrow.