Sore knee

Yep, it's happened the first injury requiring time off from running.  Stupid foot caused my gait to change just enough plus the first 12 miler of the year hurt my good knee.  The other thing was the entire 12 miles was on sidewalks which I didn't think about until later.  The weird thing was I didn't know I had a problem.  I finished the run and I was a little tired but my knee wasn't sore.  I just happened to take Monday off because it was extra cold that morning and I was tired.  On top of that I figured a day off wasn't a bad thing.  On Tuesday morning when I started to run to the gym I immediately noticed my knee was tender.  I'm expert as when I was in high school I had a partially torn meniscus in my right knee but I ran through it for at least a year.

After the run home, I went into denial.  It didn't hurt too bad so some ice and I'd be ready for the hill workout on Wednesday.  WRONG!  I did the hill workout but it hurt.  My legs are really coming around though but man the knee hurt.  So here I sit after a pre-planned day off yesterday(business travel), taking today off.  I have Elena this weekend so there's two more built in running days off.  That will be 4 days off.  That's not bad at all considering it is still early in the season.  The only bummer is today happens to be a nice 45 degree expected high day.  I haven't run in 45 degree weather since that one day in early December.  That really sucks because at the beginning of the week I was looking forward to actually sweating on a run.

Maybe if it gets warm enough today, I'll take the bike out on the road.  Now that would be something, but 45 and sunny still is pretty cold on the bike.  I could've adapted to the ultimate cold weather and maybe it will feel like 65 degrees but I doubt it.  Who knows maybe I'll venture it.

I'm frantically trying to get things together on the work side for my big trip to Oregon so I can actually do fun things on the weekends I happen to be there but it's not coming together as fast as I would like.  I'll probably be doing the typical 12 hour days when I arrive in hopes of staying out of the office on the weekend.  I do have a nice group run planned for Super Bowl Saturday.  I'm hopeful the knee will be fine by that time.  I think if I can get it feeling okay by mid next week I should be good to go.

I survived inauguration.  Since I didn't have to go anywhere, it wasn't bad at all.  I overheard a few stories from people that were stranded in the airport and had to fly out yesterday.  I guess there were so many flights leaving Reagan that people couldn't get to their gates because of the backup at check-in and security.  So the airport was pretty busy for a Thursday morning but I always get to the airport extra early just in case.  I'm all about hurry up and wait.  On top of that there were stories about not actually being able to get to the mall to watch the inauguration due to backup at security checkpoints.  Everyone was saying there were tons of people in the streets during the inauguration that couldn't get into the mall area.  Cell towers were totally overload as people were saying it took up to 10 times to get a connection from their cell.  Pretty wild stuff.