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Hi everyone, it's been a long while since I was last here, perhaps I should tell a brief story before asking questions.

 April 06 I started running, not having done any since I was at school. I loved it, followed the training plans on here and completed my first grown-up 5k in July in around 31 mins. Shortly afterwards though I injured my knee and in late Nov '06 I had an arthroscopy, and the back of the kneecap debrided. One of my last posts on here read a bit like this...

 "I'm hoping to be off the bench shortly, but my surgeon and fizz have both made it abundantly clear that they think I'm mad if I start running again. Apparently the bit of cartilege that was removed is in the part of the knee that bears the full brunt of any impact. Sadly it is a sports fizz place I'm going to, and 2 of them have had I'm clearly not suited to running Last conversation with fizz he said the only running I should be doing was to the pub if it was almost closing time."

So now 2 and a bit years later I haven't really done any running, I still really miss it and cannot get into a routine with any other sport or fitness class, am putting on weight and am pretty fed up. Most of the time my knee is fine and I completely forget there was ever anything wrong with it, other days I get the odd twinge but nothing too bad. The fizz did eventually say if I really wanted to run to go back and we could work on it. I'm thinking now I might pay him a visit (and hope his rates haven't gone up too much and that I don't need too many sessions) So, now the questions. What experience have others had of going back to running after this sort of surgery, am I mad to start running again, and if I do start again should I be working on a programme of walking for a while before starting running again? Any comments/suggestions very welcome!