So, a bit of an update…
Week of the 15th, I went out for the “normal” four times, a four a five a six and a seven – was getting pains in the knee on most of them, and on the Sunday, which was 7.2 miles I had to walk home (about 1.5 miles) – rubbish!
So I called a place in Cheptsow and booked an appointment for someone to check out whats wrong with my knee.. I left it until the Weds, and went out for a little run of about 5 miles and got the pains again – but now I knew where they were and what they felt like. On the 26th I went to see the man.
Turned up a little early because I did’nt know what the traffic was like, and waited for ages until he was ready. Once in, he asked a little about my “history”, and before you could say boo, it was shoes and shorts off now! Hmm… So he got me on the bed, face up with thankfully clean and unholy pants on, and tried my legs. They were a little tight lets say. After about 5 mins he said – ah, this looks easy – you have: Chondromalacia patellae.
As he showed me, this basically means that your knee doesn’t track up and down, in a straight line, but gets pulled to the side (to the left in my case) the main cause for me was that my outer quads were far too powerful for my inner ones – something probably brought about by cycling he said, and also my ITB was very tight. Interesting as he pushed his fingers under my kneecap to show the tightness I got rather a lot of pain – this was an immediate sign of the problem. After 10 mins or so of massage, he did it again, and whatyaknow, it was significantly better.
There we are then, I need to loosen up my ITB and strengthen my internal quads – magic. 25 mins and 50 quid later I was off to squeeze a ball between my legs.
Its been a week since then, and I went out last Weds just to see, and was in a bit of pain, just doing the 3 miles. But today, I went for a 3 miler also with a ITB band attached, and it felt great. Don’t want to count the chickens, but fingers crossed.
Went down to Pembs on the 27th, where I was supposed to be doing the “man-up” half in St Davids, but I had to shy off that – which was a shame as it looked “interesting”. I think GD did it though – good man.
Miles: 6 (this week)
Beers: 10