Having runner’s knee really sucks.  I’m going to rest for 1 week and hope that it gets better so I can run again.  I really don’t want to rest and I just want to keep running, in fact, I want to go for a run in the morning, but I shouldn’t.

It started hurting from the half marathon back at the end of April.  I’ve kind of been ignoring for the past few months.  It would hurt when I start running but then it would subside.  Then it would just be sore for the time I wasn’t running.  But lately, it’s been hurting a lot more and bothering me a lot more.  It hurt even when walking and especially when I step funny or down the stairs.  It hurt bad enough at basketball last Monday for me to decide to stop for a few days.  I was going to rest until Saturday but I really couldn’t resist to test it out on Friday.  Went for about a little more than a mile and decided to turn back instead of going for the full 4-5 mile run since it was bothering me.  Went for the lake run this morning.  It was fine for the first 2 miles, then it started hurting.  Any slight decline hurts.  Hurts pretty bad.  :(  Then I decided to try to bump around this afternoon and toss the frisbee – bad idea.  A few of the times I tried to “run” or “jump” for the disc, it freaking hurt a lot.  Yeah, stupid me.

I really want to go running tomorrow morning but I’m not going to.  I have a 5K in 2 weekends and a half marathon in 2.5 months.  Better to suck it up and rest now so I can actually run the half and keep running in the future.

Everything I’ve read sounds like I need to RICE.  I’ve been pretty good about icing and compressing and not that good about resting and elevating.  Also sounds like I need to strengthen my quads and hips.  Guess I’ll be spending a lot of my time doing leg lifts, lunges, squats, and clamshells.  Fun.  Not.

Can’t believe I’m injured so soon – I haven’t even been running that long.  Perhaps the pain got worse because I increased my mileage and intensity quite a bit in the past few weeks.  Once I get better, I still want to work on speed work and the hills.

Gah, knee better fix itself in 1 week.  1 week.