Knee update

I went to the orthopaedic clinic on Wednesday. Didn't see the surgeon but was given a good going over by the knee specialist physio. He also works with the local football team, my boyhood heroes, http://www.gmfc.net/

He pulled and hauled my leg in many directions and said my knee seems stable enough. Therefore surgery was not indicated, even to have a little look around! I made a point of developing my legs folowing the big injury 9 years ago, and my big thighs seems to have helped! However, he does think i have a patella-femoral tracking issue. This will require some training of the VMO muscle. More exercise from the physio to target this area.

The pain and general feeling of weakness has continued to ease off but i still have no answers to what could have set off the feeling of an acute injury. I suspect a mixture of not allowing myself adequate rest after the Paris marathon, trying to play football and taking to the hills too quickly in the weeks after Paris.

A lesson has been learned!!!(perhaps).

I've done very little running during the past couple of weeks. The past two Sundays have each had me out for about 20 miles in the hills behind Greenock, Inverkip and Wemyss Bay. I walked the first effort and took just under 5 hours 40 but stopped a few times for, ahem, comfort breaks and some photography. Last Sunday I covered the same route and due to feeling ok i put in a few trots along the way. I covered the distance in about 4hours 20 and started with a backpack of about 10kg. This included 3litres of drinks, grub and 6kg of weights off my dumbbells.

A 1500m recovery swim on Monday then nothing other than the physio exercises until yesterday. Did an easy 4 miles running without much problem and will attempt 10miles easy pace today.

Hopefully a corner has been turned.