I was pretty happy about my results of Saturday's run, but I must say my quads were very sore. I believe they got most of their work on the downhill as one must use their quads to slow themselves down at turns and broken parts of the trail.
Sunday afternoon, I went to play some pick up games at Central Park in San Ramon. Our squad came on to the face the winners of the last game and we immediately dominated and went up 8-1. I had hit two shots and was feeling pretty good and didn't really notice the soreness as I felt warm and loose.
Well, I shouldn't have been playing. I should have let my quads recover and rested for a day or two. With the score 9-4, I drove to the basket from the left side and as I went to take off, my left knee dislocated and popped out of place and jump right back into place. I believe this all had to do with my quads.
My knee is very swollen and I can only walk at a snail's pace,but any turning motion or too much pressure produces pain in the knee. I hurts to touch on the outside of the left knee. I have been icing and using a compression brace and taking lots of Advil and hope to recover in time for the marathon. But I don't want to lie...I am pretty bummed out about the whole thing. My training had really taken off this month and i was feeling great. Now I feel like the past two and a half months may have been in vain. Similarly, I injured myself 6 weeks before the Kona Marathon and was able to run. But that was only an ankle injury and I have had those before so it is much easier to recover. This is the first injury to my left knee. The first sprain is almost always the worst. I am optimistic that in 6 weeks time it will be strong enough to run, but I will have lost all that training time and the inactivity will negate a lot of my previous training and I will be out of shape. It is not as if I can do the stair master, bike, swim or elliptical in the near future to stay in shape. It is not an impact issue. I can barely even bend my knee. I am disappointed, I am angry, and I am sad. Just by being active and having a goal I have felt so good lately, and now I see that slipping away because of a bad decision to go play hoops. This is really a downer mentally.
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