A Bit of a Setback, But Moving Forward Again
One week ago, I woke up with increased pain on the medial side of my right knee. It was painful to walk. I took the next 2 days off from running and dropped the strength training and physical therapy exercises. I have been able to start running again, but I've had to slow my pace down significantly to keep the pain to a minimum. I've abandoned the idea (for now) of continuing hill work and/or starting some faster striders on the treadmill. I'll run every other day for a while and I'll try to keep it slow. I will reintroduce strength training as soon as tomorrow and then gradually add back in other exercises. I may ditch the indoor cycling for a while. So...how did this happen? I really don't know. There was no obvious misstep that started the increase in pain. The day before I woke up with this pain I had a relatively easy day of exercise. No running. No strength training. I did some easy cycling, but maybe pushed it a shade harder than recent efforts. I did some ph