I have a little injury. I finally have to admit it because it plays into how my swim went on Monday night. It seems I have Runner's Knee which sounds like the LAMEST injury ever and I think IS the lamest injury ever, so I'm only taking it as seriously as it sounds. But it does hurt. A lot. It's been bothering me since before the St. Patty's day race, so 5 or 6 weeks. Out of the blue my knee will feel like it's going to give out. It hurts mostly when I run downhill or go down stairs. It hurts randomly when I'm walking to work (which must be funny for people to see me walking along and then suddenly grimace and almost fall over). And apparently now it hurts when I swim.
For the swim tonight, Kyle and I were doing 2000. Monday's supposed to be my day off, but I wanted to make up a swim I missed last week. Plan was to do 400,300,200,100,100,200,300,400 - increasing speed up to the 100s then decreasing. Within the first 200, my knee started hurting. So I modified and was basically doing a one-leg kick. After doing that for a while, my leg got mad about doing all the work and my foot started cramping. So I stopped kicking altogether. Sadly did not have a pull buoy, so the rest of my body was just dragging in the water. I gave up on all concept of speed and just did everything at one pace: slow.
The pool is supposed to be the one place you CAN get a good workout when you're injured. Oh well. The good news is that it's probably just that my quads aren't strong enough right now or that my hamstrings and calves are too tight (not surprising since I am bad about stretching). I'm going to continue training and hope that it just goes away if I put a little time into stretching and strengthening. We shall see!
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