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The Green Girl and Her Knee

Sunday 11.16.08 at 11:57 · Filed under uncategorized ·Tagged , , , ,

The pain in my right knee has settled to just above the kneecap. Per my doctor’s instructions, I’ve been alternating between heat and cold.

The cold seems to make it hurt more while the heat actually gets rid of all the pain. My knee was killing me last night after I ended up standing on it for a couple of hours. I iced it when I got home and then used my heating pad with the cute camouflage cover Whimsie Dots custom made for me.

When I woke up this morning, I gingerly walked around the apartment and when I didn’t feel any pain, I headed to my boot camp class a half hour early so I could get a good stretch in. After stretching, it didn’t hurt but it did get really stiff.

I was able to make it through the entire class but I didn’t push myself like I normally do. My goal was to finish the class without further aggravating my knee.

Tomorrow, I’m going to kickbox in the morning and then try out my very first spin class. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do my interval run on Tuesday. At the very least, I hope I can get a good 3-5 mile run in.

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Green Girl Down

Wednesday 11.12.08 at 18:48 · Filed under uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

The Green Girl’s first tempo run didn’t go so well.

When I got to the track, the cross country team was practicing. I watched their bodies glide across the track as I stretched.

I assessed the situation and decided I should be okay as long as I stuck to the outer lane. My plan was to do a 15 minute easy warm-up followed by 15 minutes of hard running with a 15 minute cool down. I started jogging. My body felt tired again, just like it did last week. I backed off and slowed down even more. I had jogged about 3/4ths of the track when a sharp pain suddenly shot through my right leg. It was below the knee on the inner part of the leg. I immediately stopped jogging and walked slowly. I didn’t feel any more pain but I didn’t want to push it.

As soon as I got home, I iced it. My knee was a little sore on and off the rest of the day.

When I woke up this morning, it hurt too much for me to go to kickboxing. I attended my very first aqua aerobics class instead. I also swam a couple of laps in the pool afterwards. It was the first time I swam a full lap in about 20 years.

I don’t have a job right now so I don’t have any health insurance. I went to see my doctor today and he twisted and contorted my knee and he didn’t feel I did any serious damage to it. He did transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and ultrasound. After that, I was able to walk out of the office pain free.

Hours later, my knee is hurting again. I’ll continue to ice it. My plan is to take the rest of the week off from running. Hopefully, I’ll be able to run again next week.

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