at 12 stone, you did zero to 10k in two months and then ran it in 52mins.

thats overtraining for you.

I just thought I’d follow this up by saying that my knee problems rapidly resolved after two/three weeks of RICE, NSAIDS and knee-strengthening exercises. Walking every day with increasing distances while wearing knee straps seemed to help too, despite the pain and the feeling early on that my knees seemed to be running out of track – my whole gait had changed.

But as soon as the pain had come on during the 10k, it stopped. I can’t account for this sudden resolution of what was acute pain. Now I’m back to running and cycling without pain, though I’m taking it easy with running and being vigilant of any twinges.