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A couple of weeks ago I went for a run at the indoor track at the health club. My left knee started hurting during the run... and when I got home it had seized up so much that it hurt like CRAZY and didn't want to even bend properly. It hurt a lot less by morning but was still a bit sore for a couple of days.
As a consequence of this, I took two weeks off and didn't run. I did do some walking and had no knee issues (but did slip on ice in the dark and killed my cell phone when I landed flat on my back and apparently crushed it in my pocket, but insurance paid for a new one). So yesterday after work I said "Time go to to the gym."
And within a HALF MILE the damn thing began hurting again. And I wasn't able to run through it. I had to stop. It was either that or disable myself. The pain was increasing that rapidly.
I have two theories about the cause of the pain. Either I need to do a lot more post-winter-layoff limbering up, doing things like bicycling and road walking, before I just stick my knee out there on the track and begin pounding away at it, OR, I have some sort of unfortunate health condition that may contra-indicate running. I can feel some sort of tendon (I'm not an anatomist) flexing and popping on the left side of my left knee and that's really where the stiffness and soreness is centered.
The snow here in Vermont is rapidly melting; it's hard to believe we got a 29" snowfall less than two weeks ago, because a week of above-freezing daytime temperatures has knocked out most of it. Thus, it may be possible in the very near future to do some bicycling -- 17-18 miles to work a couple times a week should be good for me and hopefully gently flex that knee WITHOUT the pounding of running.
And if it still hurts after I do some bicycling, then I guess I'm going to have to go to a physical therapist or sports medicine professional and ask for advice. I feel pretty lame whining about pain after so little running, but I guess that's what I get for trying to start thrice-weekly running at the age of 43. :(
As a consequence of this, I took two weeks off and didn't run. I did do some walking and had no knee issues (but did slip on ice in the dark and killed my cell phone when I landed flat on my back and apparently crushed it in my pocket, but insurance paid for a new one). So yesterday after work I said "Time go to to the gym."
And within a HALF MILE the damn thing began hurting again. And I wasn't able to run through it. I had to stop. It was either that or disable myself. The pain was increasing that rapidly.
I have two theories about the cause of the pain. Either I need to do a lot more post-winter-layoff limbering up, doing things like bicycling and road walking, before I just stick my knee out there on the track and begin pounding away at it, OR, I have some sort of unfortunate health condition that may contra-indicate running. I can feel some sort of tendon (I'm not an anatomist) flexing and popping on the left side of my left knee and that's really where the stiffness and soreness is centered.
The snow here in Vermont is rapidly melting; it's hard to believe we got a 29" snowfall less than two weeks ago, because a week of above-freezing daytime temperatures has knocked out most of it. Thus, it may be possible in the very near future to do some bicycling -- 17-18 miles to work a couple times a week should be good for me and hopefully gently flex that knee WITHOUT the pounding of running.
And if it still hurts after I do some bicycling, then I guess I'm going to have to go to a physical therapist or sports medicine professional and ask for advice. I feel pretty lame whining about pain after so little running, but I guess that's what I get for trying to start thrice-weekly running at the age of 43. :(
