Nov 17th - 23rd and for now not much else...

This was a shitty week and it is not going to be the only one. Not real happy right now and there is not really anything that I can do.

11/17 - 8.25 (57:00)
Did not feel that well at all today. I was planning on going 10 but my legs and feet just didn't have it today. My arches were still pretty sore form the week before and so I tried to massage them out and that was the wrong decision. I woke up the next day and could barely walk. They were pretty messed up.

11/18 Off
Arches

11/19 Off
Arches

11/20 11 (1:15:00)
Felt great and got in a good run due to it.

11/21 9 (1:01:00)
Easy run.

11/22 9 (1:02:30)
Going long tomorrow and ran out of time today.

11/23 17 (1:54:30)
What a great run. I took the weekend easy on the party scene so that I would have a good run today and man did it pay off. I could have gone much further and the last 5 miles were all sub 6:30 pace and it felt great. I was so happy after this run knowing that I could have easily gone another 4-5 miles no problem. GREAT DAY!

So due to some not so favorable conditions at the race last week my legs took a little bit of a beating and I was forced to take two days off. Other than that, the runs that I had were of great quality. Very happy with the runs for the week.

And now the bad news. Sunday night probably 9 hours after my run was over I was moving some stuff from one room to another in my apartment and felt a little pinch in my knee. This was such a minute pain that a normal person would probably not have even noticed it, but being a runner you notice even the smallest of pains in critical body parts. Well an hour my quad was feeling a little weak and so I popped a couple of Aleve and went to bed. I woke up the next morning and my leg was quite weak and were my patellar tendon connects to my knee was quite quite painful when I took my first step of the day. If I fully extended my leg it hurt a little and if I put am impact force on my leg it hurt. It sucks walking down stairs and I had to alter my walking stride so that I could walk without pain.

Long story short right now...the next week is over and I logged 2 miles this week on Tuesday. As of right now I am going to try and get one of my old trainers to take a look at it but who knows if I will be able to or not. No running in the near future is what it seems. I wrote the beginning part of this earlier this week and have since come to the conclusion that it is not my patellar tendon, but rather behind my patellar that the problem exists.

I looked online for some possible injuries and there were a couple that seemed close to what it feels like but there are holes in them as well. So we shall see what the trainers say in the coming week. Wish me luck.