A slight pain in the..
Alright, I’m down to a 4 month countdown to the LA Marathon. I’ve hit a slight problem… my damn right knee. I ran a 14 miler a few weeks ago that just about killed it (altho I speculate it was more from our dancing in Vegas) and with 2 Sat’s off (due to a damned cold) and a knee brace I thought it would get better..
short run yesterday of 8 miles and was paying for it last night… guess I’ll be visiting the physical therapists this week…..
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November 27th, 2005 at 11:32 pm
Did you run the whole 14 miles!?!?!?
November 29th, 2005 at 1:54 am
Ouch, yeah I’ve had knee problems for a while now. I always have to wear a knee brace on my right knee whenever I play basketball. Otherwise it feels like bone is grinding on bone after a little while..
January 7th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
[...] Not too long ago during the Leggers 14 mile run, something started happening in my knee around mile 10. I ran through it until mile 12, then walked the last 2 miles back to the center. Then I went through sheer pain for the next 30 hours, limping around where it hurt to go down stairs and to just plain walk. For some reason I thought it off as a fluke, got a McDavid Knee Strap, took 2 weekends off (one weekend to Stanford and another weekend sick) and went back for an 8 mile run. Bad idea. I finished, but again was in pain for about 30 hours. So I did what every sensible person would do. I thought about it and called my doctor for an appointment a week later . Well of course, it takes 2 weeks to get an appointment, but I waited it out. During that time I tried a 3 miler on a nice soft track which was o-kay, but not great. The doctor took some X rays (I knew I hadn’t hurt it in that way) and came to the conclusion that it was Patellar bursitis, gave me a prescription for Ibuprofin, instructed me to buy a knee brace, take 2 more weeks off and do leg exercises to strengthen my quads. Well the worst thing was happening - I wasn’t exercising and I was eating more through the holidays. This made me feel like a big piece of lard. And when you feel like a big piece of lard, all you want are your good ‘ole sweats (T calls it my holiday uniform). [...]