I ran my first marathon as a teenager in 1981 with my Dad (The Coronado Marathon). Since then I've run St, George (3x) Utah Valley (3x) Ogden (1 full, 2 halves) Park City (1 x) Boston Marathon (1x) Washington DC (1x) Moab Half Marathon (6x) ,Ye Old Freedom Festival 5 & 10K (a million x) and many others.
But I'm all done with that now. I'm officially a jogger.
I hurt my knee skiing yesterday. The 20 inches of snow that fell, was heavy and wet and messy on top of the mountain. Toward the end of the day, I leaned way back in my skis and could feel the pain from that cross fit injury that landed both of my knees into the cement floor. I'm sure I've torn the tendon, I'm sure it's tendonitis. I spent my day doing sit ups/push ups and icing my knee trying to decide how bad I think it really is and if I should go back to the orthopedic surgeon.
I walk-jogged this at 13-15 MM. I did a lot of strenghtening excertsizes and quad/ham/knee stretching. Stretching/foam rlling makes me cry and shake uncontrollably when I'm trying to straighten out my leg. Booo hoooo. It's the skiing on my big fat powder skis that did me in. I leaned too far back over a big load of snow and my tightened quads pulled my tendon to shreds.