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In light of not sticking to my running schedule, I decided to run as much as I could between 13-17 miles last night. It was a perfect night run on the Chicago lakeshore trail except for that once I stopped to drink water with my ClifShot I realized how much my left lower leg was hurting. It had been such a good run up until that point that when I looked at my watch and saw I had run for nearly 2 hours I thought I was reading the time wrong!

But then I really started to feel a tightness set in and decided to stop after 13 miles with the full intention of running 20 this weekend. This morning I woke up with a really painful lateral left knee that made me limp all day long 😦 I can stand on it fine, it’s just when I bend it or take stairs that it really starts to hurt!! I’m pretty sure it’s my IT band, which has never acted up before. The weird thing is that my left ankle hurt the most during the run, seconded by my patellar tendon bilaterally.

In any case, some wonderful Ibuprofen 800 mg helped bring the swelling down while lessening the pain. Yet again I have to focus on cross training to keep up my CV fitness before the marathon. Just in case, I’ve made an appointment with a sports doctor that I’ve worked with who I hope will be on board with me for a cortisone shot should I need one.  Other than that, I’m signed up for the Malaika 5K this weekend, hope I can make it!