Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Event: 30th Annual Billygoat Run
 

Event: SVO Gifford Pinchot
 

10pm, to the north end of the street and back, w/my new ChoPat strap. Knee felt fine during the run, and immediate after - which is better than it felt all day. Odd. I'll try 5 with the strap tomorrow. With 2 doc appt's this week, I might as well test the knee with a bit of running, to make the problem more detectable...

I just found a wonderfully detailed/summarized sheet about one of my previous Patellar tendonitis.

Apparently I had L-Pat.Tendonitis-like symptoms - very, very similar in description to what I have now, from 5/92 to ~7/94 - a 26 month injury. I had a similar problem on the right during the L-episode described here, and later from 2/96 to 8/96+...

I did months of eccentric exercises for both of these yet they lasted a long time, so that's not a good sign for doing that again.

Hence my run this evening w/the strap. Gotta do something different as waiting ~22 more months for this to heal would really suck.

Near the end of the 1st injury period, I ended up swimming + a little watter running for a few months - apparently the same on the 2nd injury, so if my ChoPat thing doesn't work, swimming/water-running is next, which on previous experiences may have me running by late summer or fall.

Chance of making US WOC team in '08 is now <5%... (ChoPat or other miracle would have to work amazingly well, and then I'd still be a serious underdog...)

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AM: The yellow list... a recent PR on dips, bicep curls, and calf presses
Some good stretching after incl. the DT/stretch/ice for the knee. The knee was mildly annoying though...

Knee sore today. Not sure why. It was mildly sore before and during the walk, and was only quelled for about and hour after the DT/stretch/ice after the walk. At 5pm, I hit it again with another DT/stretch/ice. I think I need take a day off the knee, and perhaps do other gym stuff only tomorrow, w/lots of stretching. See if that helps. Frustrating...

3pm I forget exactly what I did. This is close. Knee was sore a bit today. Disappointing after yesterday from ~11am to sleep being pain-free.

Late PM...
Also did a nice AM set incl. weights, to-be-logged. Knee was sore this morning, but happier during/after exercise.

AM, pre weights

AM: The yellow list... esp. poor on situps, good on dips & side arms...

Need to wear short sleeves next time...

AM. Did about 5 situps afterwards, then bagged the strength training until at least this evening.

Knee fine before, a little sore during and until ice, but better than Mon/Tue.

AM: Did DT/stretch/ice only yesterday PM and planning same for this AM as knee is still sore. Perhaps the 64 minute O-walk wasn't the best thing for the knee. I think I'll have to stop the weekend tests thing.

~3pm. Just took a HR monitor on the treadmill for the 1st time in a while. Apparently this 12% grade, 11min/km is intensity 2. Knee not perfect before - didn't get much worse during, but my thought of going to 30 minutes ended as the not perfect became noticable again during the walk, so I stopped before it got worse.

Misc. Upper body, plus some hip and calf, avoiding knees entirely. A walk plus this set would be a reasonable thing to do ~daily as background exercise for whatever else I do to try to get the knee stronger. And yet I haven't done the strength training since 3/3. And my knee has been unhappy since Sunday. Hopefully I can get back to the point where walking uphill on the treadmill is okay for the knee.

Some pineapple DT & lots of leg stretching after (quads & more) - not too painful doing it, but the knee was burning a bit after.

Ice quelled it well. Question is, for how long?

A warmup with no DT/stretch/ice after to leave the knee inflamed as I went immediately after for an MRI and am hoping that will make whatever the damage-cause is more visible. Have appt's on 15th and 17th (2 diff. doc's) to interpret the MRIs.

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