Knee, Get Well Soon
October 1, 2007 by Bryon Powell · 3 Comments
At this point, my knee is trouncing my rib in terms of annoyingness. Today I can breathe deeply without pain. That is good. Unfortunately, yesterday my knee was quite bothersome for the first mile of my run (at which point I decided to turn a 20 mile run into a 5 miler) and was another for the rest. The knee is not painful when I’m just tooling around, although it can be a bit tight. Gonna try for 5 miles tonight. I’d really like to be able to hit the track again soon, but am not sure when that’ll happen as it looks like running fast will be a later step in recovery. I’m hopping it at least comes around some by this weekend as I had intended to go out to the Shenandoah Mts for a weekend of running long.
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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Goat, this just sucks. On a positive note, did you sign up for the Mt. Mitchell Challenge?? -Mason
I really hope it heals soon.
Thanks guys, giving it time to rest now. Quite annoying that my major rib injury clears up only to be kept from running by what seemed like a run of the mill fall on my knee!
Mason, as my later post suggests, my sis and I are both in for the MMC weekend. Didn’t see your name on the list though. What gives?