Sun, Apr 6-Sat, Apr 19

Sun, Apr 6-Sat, Apr 12

Sun Apr 6 - DNR - Injured/Resting knee

Mon Apr 7 - DNR - Injured/Resting knee

Tues Apr 8 - DNR - Injured/Resting knee

Wed Apr 9 - DNR - Injured/Resting knee

Thurs Apr 10 - DNR - Injured/Resting knee

Fri Apr 11 - DNR - Injured/Resting knee

Sat Apr 12: AM. Walked ~12 miles around Lake Monona including 4x5 mins running (20 mins running total). Knee felt ok. It was sunny with a temp in the upper 20s when I started and mid 40s by the end.

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Sun, Apr 13-Sat, Apr 19

Sun Apr 13: AM. Walked ~23 miles around Lake Mendota including a few 5 min runs. The knee started acting up on the third run. No problems when just walking. It was mostly cloudy and in the 50s.

Mon Apr 14 - DNR - Injured/Resting knee

Tues Apr 15: AM. A 10 min run on the Capital City Trail. Knee was achy for the first minute, then got better.

Wed Apr 16: PM. In Deerfield, A 30 min run on the Glacial Drumlin Trail. It was partly sunny and 54°.

Thurs Apr 17: AM. A 25 min run on the Capital City Trail. Knee was achy and getting worse. It was partly cloudy and 37°. PM. In Deerfield, A 25 min run on the Glacial Drumlin Trail. Knee was achy, but remained tolerable. It was cloudy and around 60°.

Fri Apr 18: AM. A 25 min run on the Capital City Trail. Knee was sore, but not as bad as yesterday. It was 50° and raining. PM. In Deerfield, ran 10 mins on the Glacial Drumlin Trail before right knee became too painful.

Sat Apr 19: AM. A 25 min run on the Capital City Trail. Knee was achy, but tolerable. It was sunny and 43°. PM. A 25 min run on the Capital City Trail. Knee was achy but remained tolerable- didn’t seem to get any worse. It was partly sunny and 50°.

After taking another week off from running, the knee has continued to bug me. The “gradual approach” hasn’t seemed to be working too well. I’ve decided to throw common sense out the window, take advice from Jake Barraclough and “train harder, not smarter”. The past few days I’ve been doing short doubles and trying to ignore the achiness in my knee. I’m hoping the knee will become immune to the achy pain and forget about it completely after a bit. I will of course stop if the knee becomes too painful, like on Friday evening’s run. Most of the time though, the achiness in my knee has been tolerable. If the knee still doesn’t get better after another week or so, then I’ll look into getting an AKA.