Archive for April 17th, 2009

Well…..how do I put this mildly?   This sucks.

My frustrations with my leg problems have been building up to a boiling point.  I’m trying to stay optimistic and hopeful, but it’s hard.

If it’s not one thing hurting, it’s something else.  I guess it’s mostly just my left leg, but that doesn’t make matters any better.  Within the past few weeks, I’ve moved through a list injuries:

Quad/Shin- solved that, then my middle toe started feeling like it was broken.  I think the tendons were just super tight and wouldn’t let me bend my toe.  At all.  Trigger toe, perhaps?  After lots of taping and stretching, that problem has finally (almost) gone away.  On top of all that, my ankle has been a constant irritation and while it’s nothing that bothers me during a run, it bothers me the rest of the day.  But I can deal with that, no problem.

And now, the worst of them all—my knee.  It started out just hurting when I was done running, then started when I’d be in the middle of a run, then when I’d go up stairs, but now it hurts pretty much all the time.

I’m pretty sure it’s either my illiotibial band or the lateral collateral ligament, but I’ve never had problems with either of these, so I’m not sure which it is or what I did to injure it.

I’ve been icing. Elevating. Stretching. Glucosamine-ing like crazy.

I’m frustrated.

I knew training for this marathon would not be a breeze, but this has been hard.  Getting my mileage in and sticking to my training schedule has been relatively easy, but the injuries that have been building up have been difficult to deal with.

So I’m putting myself on the disabled list and getting an appointment with a doctor who can then refer me to a specialist.  The last thing I want is for this to get worse and not be able to run the marathon at all.  I think I can handle not having the strength and endurance to run my best pace and having to slow down.  As long as I get to run it.  I have two months to figure things out.

Until I know more, there’s no running, no biking, probably no elliptical.  This really is a downer.

Trying to stay optimistic is almost as hard as trying to walk up the stairs.

Hopefully my next post will be better

[Placing a smile on my face while crying inside.]