[Phaedrus49er]

Quick follow-up from yesterday: I wore a neoprene sleeve on my left knee all day at work (sitting) to keep the joint warm. The knee would pop a couple times when I got up to walk around a little, but nothing out of the ordinary (perhaps even less than it has been). I also spent a good ten minutes per leg on a foam roller doing the lower-body stuff from this article. Hurt in a good way.

With the weather being sunny and in the mid-70s today, I decided to test my theory about my TA issues affecting only my distance running. Sure enough, the theory held, and I blew threw my usual sprint session a little more easily than normal, perhaps because of the foam roller work, perhaps because I kept the sleeve on the left knee, perhaps both. In fact, I felt so good that I came home and did five continuous rounds of 1000m rowing and 10 pushups (nothing much, just something to offset the upper-body horizontal pull).

Now that I've narrowed down the offending exercise, tomorrow I'm setting up appointments with a new doctor (Burroughs worked on my girlfriend's running issues with positive results) ASAP (hopefully before my scheduled 9.5-mile run on Friday afternoon) and with my ART guy (Duffy fixed my rotator cuff injuries a couple years ago) sometime before Charleston next weekend, and perhaps follow-ups with one or both within the two weeks after Charleston in preparation for the half-marathon. Man, I love having health insurance