Rob's Running Blog

2 Miles Easy Run In The Sun

Yesterday I thought I wasn’t going to be be running again for a while… I had a bit of an altercation with a car, it wasn’t going very fast, but it kind of blind sided me while I was fiddling for my phone and it blasted its horn at me, wasn’t even going very fast. Unfortunately this made me wobble the wrong way (for my knee) and my cartilage thing (or kneecap thing, depending on who you listen to) wobbled out of place and my knee locked. Rather than go into contortions on the street I wobbled home and then proceeded to spend the most frustrating hour trying to pop my knee back into place. Usually bending it right back with foot touching arse seems to do the job in a few goes – not this time! Eventually, I lay on my back and gripping my ankle and raised my knee to almost above my ahead, and finally, finally straightened it and it straightened up normally with no pain (trying to straighten it when it’s locked can be agony, and it will buckle under me). My last physio said there wasn’t much wrong with it though and it was probably my kneecap and couldn’t possibly be cartilage. His assistant said it was most likely my cartilage (is it any wonder I stopped the physiotherapy!). Anyway, such is the joy of running and other sports injuries. The odd thing is, my knee never ever seems to go when I am doing something like running, running around, or doing some kind of sport. The recent occasions have been – getting up off my office chair, turning around to look at something in town, in the middle of sex, and now crossing the road 🙂

Anyway, after all this messing about my hamstring felt tender, which it has been for a few weeks, and I must have aggravated it with all the knee-popping contortions. So I set off for a run and was very aware of a niggle there. The knee hurt briefly then settled down, I was almost going to stop, but decided to just plod and see how I went, and managed to plod around 2 rather slow miles.

Still, it was a run, and I had only planned an easy run anyway. Hopefully reach the 5k mark this week, hamstring permitting, as long as my dratted knee stays in one piece 🙂