I going to try and read between the lines here:
single knee bend -
did you stop to stretch?
where was the pain? under the knee cap, front, one side, etc.
what other symptoms lead you to believe you have runner's knee, are you
refering to chrondromalacia?
what symptoms do you have when you are not running? has this ever
happened "just around the house"?
re the deep knee bends, old doctors joke: if it hurts to do that, then
don't do it anymore. but if you do stretch, go very slow and pay
attention to what hurts, and if any muscles seem tighter than other,
opposing and left leg over right.
ICE get a couple of gel packs and apply as soon as possible after you
run for 10-15 minutes and again in an hour or two.
re your thoughts:
1. won't hurt, probably not the cause unless new shoes are dramatically
different that your previous shoes. this is why it is recommended to
have more that one brand of shoe that you rotate through, to keep your
body from getting into a groove that it shouldn't.
2. good idea for the time being. but your quads may need some
strengthening if you really have runner's knee.
3. don't even consider this until you have a real good idea of what's
going on in your knee, sudden and drastic changes in running form could
end up causing more damage than help.
Oh and the R part of RICE is rest. Hopefully the impending snow storm
will provide you with sufficient incentive to stay inside and rest. Most
importantly, chill, you are so uptight, understandably so, that you
can't even write a coherent, grammatically correct sentence:
Quoted message said:I've got two 1/2M's schedule for March and I don't want to side on the
sidelines....
All your serious training for these half's is in the bank, all you need
to do is keep the neuro's fresh. consider this God's way of getting you
to taper.
Quoted message said:damn, it turned 42 and already i'm freaking that i'm falling apart. i
did 9 miles yesterday, 6 miles into it on a single knee bend felt "that
piercing pain" for the duration of the bend. the pain commenced
w/impact & end when pressure was removed (foot no longer on the surface
of the road).
about 1 mile later i felt it again for the duration of a single strike
& lift off. and then about 1 more mile later...yup one more time. on
set of "Runner's Knee"? is this how it show's it's ugly face at first?
today i did another 9 miles and had the same thing occur 3 times as
well.
of course i'm paranoid and read up all over the net on runners knee and
understand what's going on.....however did not come to any one
conclusive plan of recovery (lasting recover).
anyone ever overcome Runner's Knee? via a traning regiment?...or did a
couple of weeks off your feet do the trick? here's what I'm thinking.
1). these shoes w/about 50 miles on them that i wore on these two
occassions?...I'm going to switch to some old trusty shoes i've logged
several hundred miles on
2). avoid downhills
3). Gonna give Romanov's Posing a try and do a morning and evening 4
miler (8 total/per).
Whadday think?
I've got two 1/2M's schedule for March and I don't want to side on the
sidelines....
