PT

Yep, I bit the bullet and caved into the physical therapy route for my stupid knee.  I went in and they grabbed, poked, massaged and tweaked.  They finally came up with the answer.  My foot injury is what's causing the knee pain.  It's not runner's knee at all.  It's the muscle be overstrained because it was compensating for my tendon in my boot being tight.  My whole left leg was tight as compared to my right one.  The physical therapist pushed and massage different spots.  It hurt like a mother.  I've never gotten a massage because it hurts too much.  It was hard to tell if the various pressure and massages were helping relieve my knee pain or if it was just hurting worse and masking the knee pain.

At a point during the procedures, the knee did feel better.  I got various exercises that I'm doing to loosen up my muscles in my legs to help the soreness.  Overall, it's good that I can get this to go away and not have to worry about cartilage being inflamed.  They said it should start to feel better in a couple of days if I keep doing the exercises.  Once, I can walk down stairs without pain, I can start running again.  Hopefully within the week as I can still get some sort of training in before the May Half Ironman with 8 weeks to go.

I did get some fancy ultrasound on the top of my foot.  Not sure if it helped or not because I really haven't had pain in my foot since the knee injury.  I can see how professional athletes can heal really fast.  If they do PT everyday, it can help a ton.  I have another session on Tuesday so hopefully it just get better and better.

The next running injury I get I'm hitting the PT immediately.  It's worth it to me to be able to keep running at a high level.  Maybe this way I can really ramp up the running speed and get a little closer to my old pace.

Elena is taking a nap right now in preparation for our White House tour.  It got moved from 2pm to 7pm so she'll be up past her bedtime.  It was her own idea to take a nap.  What a conciseness kid.  I had to get her some dress shoes as she's grown out of her past ones.  She also needed a new dress sweater to go over her dress.  It was hard finding because all the spring clothes are out.  We found one at the Gymboree but it was spendy.  Oh well...such is a parent's life.