After an early active recovery ride on my bike, I spent the rest of the morning at my desk, on back to back work meetings.  When I got up from my desk near lunchtime, my knee was a little sore.

This knee soreness has been around for over a week now.  I am pretty sure it is a reoccurrence of an injury that I had earlier this year. Luckily, this time around, it is much less severe.  Knowing this, I decided to go back in my training log on Training Peaks, to see how I managed to get beyond the injury back then.  I also went back and checked my blog from that timeframe.

My blog from February 1st covered the day I decided that the injury was too severe, to continue working out.  You can see from today’s photo that I didn’t work out for the whole of the following week.  What you also see is that entry, called “Coach and Athlete Weekly Feedback”.  This is where I summarize things like, how I felt the previous week went and updates on niggles and injuries.

I read the feedback entry for the week in the photo, and for several weeks after.  The information was very insightful.  I was also recovering from the stress fracture in my foot at the time, and so I was coming back from two injuries; both more severe than my current knee issue.  What I discovered is that after a complete week of rest, I had a week of only swimming and then I got back on the bike.  A week after that, my knee was essentially fixed and I was both running and biking.

It was great to read all this, because my memory on it’s own, was telling me I was out of action for much longer.  It also reminded me, that my downtime was much more than the few days that I have taken this time around. 

With no races in the near future, I have no need to push my training, so if my knee is feeling at all sensitive in the next few days, I am going to back off once again.  I’m in good shape, so it’s time to be patient….