Easy Ride

The 10km as planned didn't happen, the prospect of studying after a week of assessments didn't seem too appealing so I opted to clean my room instead. Before I knew it, it was 8pm (& I hadn't eaten since lunchtime). But more importantly, my knee has been giving me trouble on & off all day. Don't know what it is but it's a somewhat severe tenderness on the left side of my right kneecap upon touching it. I also can't do squats either (I can bear weight on it no problem, but bending the knee is the issue) Probably just some mild inflammation...

I can run 100% fine on it though, I verified this by going out to the track at around 10pm for a few laps just to see how it'd behave. You just know whether you'll be able to run on it & I reckoned I could. I just didn't fancy being 3 miles into my run & suddenly have to walk home after being forced to pull up with pain in knee (eg from Cappagh road etc) - not fun. I'm also developing a cold so it was all just bad timing. Been up late with college this week so immune system down a bit too. 

Absolutely no problems whatsoever on the track... even the 1 mile cycle down was a pleasure. To cut a long story short I put it down to "stiffness" (due to unknown reasons). For now I'll do an ostrich, bury my head in the sand, train as normal (8 miler on Sunday etc) ignore it & hope it's just one of those odd twinges that comes & goes in running. 

As ever, I'm more curious now than anything else really as to what it might be (even if it isn't, as of yet, causing me a direct problem) Lets just hope that that's all there is to it. I am doing nothing wrong volume wise so there is no reason for my knee to be protesting. I don't mind being injured at all (this isn't an injury - I even did some 100m sprints - albeit rather cautiously) as long as I know how & why it happened & how long I've to wait to resume full training. It's the uncertainty that does it for me, I hate inconsistency... But it's this sort of stuff that makes running so respectable & humbling which in turn always brings you back for more.

Let's hope it'll blow over. Nothing to really worry about, some stretching & rolling out the IT band etc with rolling pin & it should be fine. No worries!