In which my body appears to give up.

Good news I tried my trainers, my old trainers, and the pain in my right knee went away. Unfortunately the exact pain has manifested itself in my left knee now. I could hardly walk following my run in them a couple of days ago.

This is a depressing situation. I don't appear to be able to run anymore. For a bit I can, then no more. This time last year I could run quite far, now I can't. And the truth is I'm not sure what to do about it. It's quite a black and white thing.

I've got another week to defer my marathon entry to next year, so I'm taking that, not sure why, but I am. Even if I do defer I don't know what good it will do, but it can't hurt I guess - maybe knees heal themselves. Then again maybe they don't.

Comments

[Ben]

Doctor. You should see a Doctor.

[Paul H. Colman]

They can never sort anything.

[Ben]

Just email them this blog.

[claire]

Physio?

[claire]

Physio?

[claire]

Glucosamine?

[Paul H. Colman]

Err...

[lauren]

hi paul. welcome back. (i'm a bit behind on the whole thing, aren't i).

same thing happened to me. i thought it was 'cos i had crap trainers - changed them, still couldn't run. figured it was 'cos i was getting old - started swimming instead. left it a year, can run again. now prefer swimming :)

[Helen]

Sorry to hear your knees are giving you trouble. I have no advice to offer but am glad you're writing here again.

[Ben]

I think this blog is even worse than the last one.

[Brett]

Welcome back to blogging. A long low resistance spin might work out the nasty bits causing pain(scar tissue, minerals, bacon and lager.) Does for me at least.

[Hayes]

I haven't read any of the other comments but I did read all your post.

'Running' is evil no matter what Nike says.

It screws your knees. It f***s your feet. It's, like, totally high impact, dude.

(I put running in inverted commas because it's ok to run for a bus. Running to get fit, though, is lame. And it'll turn you lame, too.)