injury

A few weeks ago I noticed that my left knee felt "off" and my knee-cap was tender to the touch. Not a good sign. I've had my share of sore muscles, tight tendons, hyper-extended joints, cracked ribs and over stretched ligaments but this one was new to me. In general I have led a very injury free life especially considering the activities in which I participate. My theory tends to be continue exercising carefully and see if it get worse, stays the same or gets better. I basically tell myself that I can just push through and it will heal. Yes I realize this isn't most conservative approach, but I am very stubborn and like to see how far I can take things. When I first noticed my knee I right away googled my symptoms and found out I have what's commonly known as runner's knee and the treatment is resting from any activity where you need to bend your knee, icing, stretching and strength training. Of course I wanted to see how far I could take it so I backed off a little in my training but for the most part kept going as planned. Well today I cut my 5 hour ride short to 2.5 hours as it seems this time my Wolverine powers have failed me and I need to restrict my training even further. This may sound strange but as difficult as training is at times it's even more difficult to force myself to not run and severely limit my cycling. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of swimming and yoga.

Injuries suck. Good Day.