Confusion

The most frustrating part of this injury is not knowing where my pain is coming from, and how hard to push through it. One of my best assets as a runner is my ability to push through pain. Unfortunately its also one of my worst assets.

I ran 4 miles with Scott at the Scituate reservoir on Sunday. It was amazing to run even for a short while with an old training buddy. The run went really well for the most part, a little uncomfortable for about 5 minutes, and then everything went swimmingly. However, for the past 3 days, I haven't felt quite so great. This is where the confusion sets in.

Before being given a green light to start training again, 99% of the time that I felt my knee was ascending or descending stairs. These days I barely notice it on the stairs. Sounds great right? Well now i notice lateral knee pain more than anything. The problem is that I never know if its the stress response (which would be bad), Kristen doing Graston stuff to the area, or just general joint pain/wearing from getting used to running again.

On one hand, I get tempted to say its just joint pain because the right has been a little achy as well. However, I get little signs that tell me something else must be going on. It has to be one of the most frustrating things that I have ever dealt with. I'm going to continue to push through for a little bit and then reassess. Worst case scenario, I will just make another appointment with the ortho and go from there. Can't help but get down at times though.