So, I'm totally freaking out right now.
Sunday Jessi and I had a marvelous and strong 9 mile run,
Monday I took a rest from running and cross trained on the bike for 60 minutes,
Tuesday I ran a strong 3 miles then stretched in yoga for an hour, and
Wednesday I ran 5 miles through horrible, sucky pain.
It wasn't a 'oo-I've-got-a-cramp' pain, but more like 'my-knee-is-unstable-and-is-effecting-the-rest-of-my-stride' pain. Does that make sense?
It started around 3.5 miles as a pain in my outer right knee. By mile 4 it had stretched to my ankle. This is when I should have stopped running. But I really wanted to get good mileage in this week! During the last mile I could feel the pain in my right hip. I was limping to finish the last half-mile. I'm sure I looked pathetic.
Weird thing is, when I stopped running and began walking the pain immediately when away. I stretched and stretched, hoping I would find a pulled or cramped muscle or tendon somewhere. Nothing. It wasn't until I was walking to my car before I felt it again. And now I'm limping around the house. I don't know much about running pains or injuries but something just doesn't feel right.
Needless to say, once home I iced my knees, popped some ibuprofen and said a quick prayer hoping this isn't any kind of injury. I am going to take tomorrow off as a rest day, but I'm totally freaking out. The race is less than 4 weeks away and we have been training so well! I felt so strong up until today...what is happening!?
I'm totally bummed but hoping some rest will do me good.
Fingers crossed.
Oh no! I was going to text you to tell you I had a really good run but I'm glad I didn't (except I pretty much just did haha). Take some time off and I'm sure you'll be fine by the weekend. Maybe try some of those knee strengthening exercises Caitlin does?
ReplyDeleteI went through this when I trained for my first half! I iced my knees after every run that final month of training...even the short ones...and always took a couple Aleeve about 30mins before I ran. Hopefully a mixture of rest/ice/stretching will help.
ReplyDeleteIf you continue to have issues I would def get it checked out...but I think this is something a lot of runners go through!