This isn't how I wanted to start the blog, but it is what it is. My knee is acting up again, like last year around this time. I suspect the cause is either weight lifting or snow running. Ironic since I claim to weight lift in order to prevent injury. My plan is to do the standard quad stretch (pull the foot back towards the butt), but with a towel folded over and lodged in the crook behind my knee. The idea is to expand the knee cap. A PT showed me this trick when I had this problem last year. He suspected that I had inflamed my plica. I'll also be icing and digging into that area of my knee with my thumb to break up the scar tissue, a bit of self-administered active release.
Nobody grasps for the fine line between determination and bull-headed stubborness quite like a distance runner.
- Neal