Run 87, 2008

OK I have a major problem with my knee. I started out fine, at well under a 7 minute pace until km 7 where the old knee popping/swelling thing reared it’s ugly head. The knee popping is especially bad going uphill, and the swelling really takes off on the downhill. So I had to walk a lot on the way back home and my total time was 1:27. I’ve been puzzling over this knee problem for quite a while, at least since the spring as far as I can recollect. I think I finally have a probable cause.

I considered muscle imbalances causing my knee to not track properly, but now I think it is my IT band. Possibly both are contributing to the problem.

I am going to get some professional help to resolve this. And I am going to focus a lot more on stretching my IT bands.

Just when one has an epiphany, or is on the verge of a huge breakthrough, serious setbacks almost always happen. At least to me they do. The only thing holding me back from a sub-hour 10 km right now is my knee problem.

So, as angry as I feel about the delay, I am going to get this fixed as soon as physically possible then continue on towards that sub-hour 10 km goal.

This problem has not affected my karate training at all.