Byebye Running

Monday, February 20th

I got my knee checked out today again. Apparently, the pain I’m feeling is not from the bursitis or any of my previous problem. It’s patellar tendonitis.

For those of you who don’t know anything about tendonitis, let me just say this: it sucks. Tendonitis is one of those things that you can actually train through, but if you do train through it and don’t let it heal it becomes chronic, aka it never goes away. Ever.

I don’t know how long this tendonitis has been there, but I’d guess it was triggered by last Tuesday’s speed workout. This means it’s still recent enough to treat, so since my season’s already guaranteed to suck we decided I should take 10 days off from running. I’ll still show up for ice, ultrasound, stretching, exercises, rolling out, and more ice. It’s sad, I spent around two hours at track every day and can’t even run. Ohh well, you’ve gotta do what you gotta do.