Friday, May 12, 2006

Straining training

Ever since the race on Sunday, I've had a little soreness in the back of my right knee. Did a short 3.5 mile recovery run on Monday night and then went out on Tuesday night with the Trail Nerds in some muddy conditions. During the slippery run, I had a couple of mis-steps that I think may have torqued the knee slightly, but didn't feel any immediate pain and we were in a pretty decent groove at the time, so I didn't think anything about it. Once I got home, it started tightening up and hurting pretty bad and by Wednesday morning I had a hard time moving around. I could put weight on it, but it hurt to bend the leg (curl it upwards) and stairs were tough. Thursday morning, I went to see my Dr. and she said that she didn't think anything was torn, but she did think I have a pretty good strain of something. She said to rest and ice it for a few days and take it easy once I started back with the activity. TAKE IT EASY??? I have another adventure race coming up and need to train harder to get stronger. This is frustrating, but necessary for the long run I guess.

3 comments:

onepinkfuzzy said...

yes TAKE IT EASY!!!!

If you don't, you run a very strong possibility of hurting it even more, thus keeping you from adventure training even longer! I learned that with my ITB. Boy, was that a toughie!

shliknik said...

You're getting old...admit it.

heheheheheh

Breeves2000 said...

They know how to prescribe the drug of the month that's for sure! Thank you Pharmaceutical reps. a.k.a. legal drug pushers!