Yes. My 1/2 Marathon career is over before I even started training when today I was diagnosed with a Meniscus injury in my left knee and also diagnosed with degenerative osteoarthritis of the left knee.
I was very afraid that this might be arthritis since my knee has been really hurting the last couple months. It runs in my family — my mom is about to have her 4th joint replaced and my brother who will be 40 in two weeks (ha ha), has had 2 hips replaced and is having issues with his shoulders now. I was just hoping that I just hurt myself and it wasn’t more serious. Gee. Thanks Mom.
Turns out I did hurt myself and it is more serious. Crap.
So the prognosis….good, since it was caught early. I am strictly forbidden from running more than 15 minutes straight ever again. He would prefer me not to run at all, but rather to do elliptical training or take up biking. Actually he said that training for a long distance bike ride would be wonderful for my knee. So maybe I’ll look into doing a 75 mile race or something. I can continue spinning, which is good.
Sorry Sarah & Marcia. I suppose you’ll have to run 13.1 miles along the beach by yourselves. Sniff sniff. I was actually looking forward to it.