1/2 marathon after knee surgery

I've had partial meniscectomy in my left knee and couldn't run for a couple of months after the surgery. In fact, I didn't really try as I decided to give my knee a chance to recover. I did a whole lot of cycling though with reinforcement exercices, etc. and I think it helped a lot. As of now, I can run 1/2 marathons with no problem...

From my own experience, the only good advice I can tell you would be to listen to your body... If you feel you can run, give it a chance. If it hurts, do something else...

Good luck,

Christian.

I've had my knees scoped 3 times. After the 3rd one, I did my first run about 2 weeks afterwards and was back to marathon training at week 4 (ran the marathon just fine 4 months afterwards). I did this because it felt good and I could tell that I wasn't doing damage.

Generally speaking, they say that 6 weeks is where you can resume normal activity. The good thing about running is that it will help break up the scar tissue that builds up from the procedure, and you should have a better long term recovery. Unless you've had a massive amout (75%+) removed, you should be able to run perfectly fine after recovery.

I'd say if it feels good, do it. Just make sure you can tell the difference between "it feels great" and "i want to run so badly that i force myself to believe that it feels great"

No, I never want to run THAT badly...I just thought that a running goal might help out a little. Thanks for the advice! mine was a partial menisectomy and it turns out she only had to remove about 10%...not bad. We'll see how it goes.