Let's Get Physical

I had my first session of Physical Therapy Friday. The guy didn't really do much, mostly just looked at my knee and did a little bit of stretching. I guess he's going to put me on a treadmill or something at our next session. It sounds like he's more interested in the long-term stuff, which is all fine and good but I have a race in one week. I basically feel that I wasn't injured enough to really gain much from Physical Therapy. My guess is that with the PT I'll be be at 100% in 10 days; without it, I would be at 100% in 14 days. My race is in 7 days. He may do some preventive stuff for the future, but it's nothing that Dr. Brian couldn't show me. For free.

I was able to do a 36-mile bike ride on Saturday. It was slow and I was having a little bit of knee trouble, but my legs really needed the mileage. More importantly, I did a 9-mile run today. Again, not fast and I walked a little bit, but the weak link with the running wasn't my knee; it was my tired legs. (The last time I even TRIED anything more than 4 miles was Feb 24th, a month ago.) Since the biking still hurts my knee more than the running, I'm going to go in for a new bike fitting.

My Physical Therapist also opened up a bunch of repressed traumatic childhood memories, but that deserves its own post.