Enternal Bridesmaids

The Cronulla Sharks 40 years and still without a premiership win. Another loss tonight against Manly 29-22. The Sharks had eleven players out injured, so it was a good performance, considering Manly are running second. I hate Manly, my dislike of Manly will never die.

I walked fifty minutes tonight. No orthotics. My whole leg doesn’t feel smooth. There were snatches of pain down the back of my calf, over the ITB, behind the patella itself. However, the pain wasn’t as annoying as when I was wearing the custom made orthotics. I’ve been thinking what a bad injury this really is.  15 months limping around with a sore knee. 7 months McConnell taping and physio  and still a long way to go. I have moments when I think I may have really killed my knee this time.

Sans orthotics

After trying combinations of taping and orthotics this week I have decided that they are contributing to my lateral knee pain. I took them off last night and my knee pain dimished immediately. Perhaps the motion control features ( Adidas Supernova Cushions) in my new shoes are enough to overcome my apparent pronation problems? I probably should make an appointment with a good podiatrist next time I’m down in Sydney. If I can be relatively pain free without the orthotics then that is the option I need to move ahead with. last night I was wlaking resonably freely without tape at all.

Might be winning part III

Did 2 walks today. Morning 6km Coffs Creek walk, this avo, 5.3 km jetty circuit. This nights walk was good, almost pain free, except for a horrendous pain from a blister on my heel. The clicking and cracking has almost stopped. I don’t understand the biomechanics of this. No orthotics less pain and catching? Maybe my feet roll out less? I won’t complain. I’m not sure if this is a just a momentary respite from the injury and it will come back to bite me ever harder, this week. I just have to hold on and ride it out.

This weekends walking

Friday 6.6km

Saturday 4km 6.6km

Sunday 6km 5.3km

23.5km

Might be winning Part II

This morning my leg was sore. Probably because I overdid it yesterday. I did the Jetty_Park Beach 4km walk this morning. I started the walk and my leg felt a bit iffy. It took until after half way for things to improve. I left the heart rate monitor at work so I don’t know what time I did. Would have been slow because I wasn’t pushing hard at all. I ate some lunch at the near park the beach. Walking back to the car I decided that my knee had settled down pretty well. I decided to go and buy a pair of Nike Air Pegasus’s at Athletes foot. I wore them for a while, but put the Adidas Supernova Cushions back on. Walking aorund the shopping centre I thought I was winning the battle against knee pain today. The Supernova Cushions are a fabulous shoe. If I can walk pain free without the orthortics I should go for it.  I don’t understand the biomechanics of this, but why ask questions? If it works it works.  

The other thing I am doing differently is taping the knee lower on the patella, right behind the triangular edge. This does seem to really push it across. The half off half on tpae doesn’t seem to have enough oomph behind it.  

I’m currently looking like being 5/5 in the footy tipping.  A good week tipping will move me up the ladder. The leader of the comp is way ahead of me though.

Battle of the Maltracking patella

Silly me, I went for 2 X 6.6km Muttonbird Island circuits today. Orthotics are gone. The nightmare isn’t over this mornings walk wasn’t as good as last night.  The Adidas Supernova Cushion are a nice shoe. My walk tonight wasn’t too bad. I’m imagining that the knee cap IS pushing over. I’m not sure if I am suffering from knee pain or not, it’s more like dysfunctional leg pain. The pain comes from everywhere.

Tonight I had my second nose bleed of the week. A real gusher. I had to stick a shopping docket up my nose until I got to a service station, and could get some dunny paper, then buy some kleenexs. I was just driving along and a torrent came out of my nostril. Nasty. I lost quite a lot of blood, felt a bit faint afterwards

Cutting through the McConnell red tape

This avo, I tried tilting and gliding the tape across the body of the patella. At the moment the knee feels less fiery than it has for nearly a week. I start the tape on the edge of the corner of the patella. The patella is shaped like a triangle and I put the tape across the body of the patella to really push it across.

This is how the second physio I saw at McConnells did it, although I taped it a bit more forcefully. He seemed really worried about what the tape was doing to my skin. I was more worried about what my rough cartiledge was doing to my soft tissues inside the knee. I diverted from something that had been working for me and I have to say that it has been pretty much bad news since. Anyway, I’ll give this new taping a burl, I’ve got nothing to lose except my runner’s knee.

My mysterious knee. Tonight I put on the new Adidas Supernovas, ditched the orthotics, and put the insoles that came with the shoe. I had the best, most pain free walk for nearly two years! Is it a dream? Is the nightmare near its end? I hope so.