May 14, 2006
Klutziness
For as much of a klutz as I am, I have managed to avoid really hurting myself. I've been known to walk into walls. In my own house. A house that I had lived in for my entire life at the one time that I'm thinking of in particular. I've fallen on my face and not affected my teeth. The only bones that I've ever broken have been fingers. See, I may be a klutz, but I never really hurt myself. For the past few days my right knee has been bothering me. I could not think of anything that caused it. Yesterday afternoon, I looked closely at it. It's swollen on the outside, just above the kneecap area. Kind of like when I've sprained an ankle. It doesn't hurt when I run, but it gets stiff afterwards. My thought is that I twisted it funny on Tuesday when I was on the treadmill. At one point, they had me walking and I decided to step on the stationary side panel instead of the belt. This resulted in a stumble. The knee started to hurt some on Wednesday, so this makes sense. I've been icing it since I noticed the swelling. I had it elevated earlier and now I have it compressed. I've pretty much followed RICE, except for the R part. This may require some days off from running this week. We'll see how it looks every day and take it one day at a time.
In being stubborn, I did run today. It probably would have been best to take today off, but I'm stubborn like that. I went to a park that is relatively large, but there really aren't that many places to run in it. I selected this park since it is almost completely flat. I actually felt pretty good this morning. It felt cool when I left and it was humid. The coolness was because the air was so moist. After about forty minutes, I was feeling really warm. My OCD kicked in when I got back to where I parked. It was 53 minutes, so I decided to do two more minutes to hit 55, but when I looked at my watch it was almost 56, so I ran until I hit 56 minutes. It was probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 7.5 to 7.75 miles.
I think that my weekly mileage was right around 50 this week, where it will hover for the next few weeks. My body is starting to feel a bit better at the lower mileage. It always feels strange the first few weeks of cutting back and I actually feel more tired. After a few weeks, my body realizes that it is rested and it's time to race and I feel sharper and faster. Hopefully this is true since I have a full plate of races lined up in the next few weeks.
Posted by Blondie at May 14, 2006 06:47 PM
Comments
How is your knee???
Posted by: bridget at May 23, 2006 06:02 PM
Heya Blondie!
Where did you go? I hope you and your knee are doing okay!
Posted by: Meghan at May 28, 2006 09:25 PM
hey blondie...what's up?? i hope you're doing okay. send me an e-mail when you get a chance to let me know what you're up to...
Posted by: Audrey at June 6, 2006 08:08 PM