Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

Hope your knees feel better soon. Are you doing any strengthening exercises for them?

Thanks, weak quads is considered a major culprit of runner's knee so I'm started doing straight leg lifts but they didn't seem to be working the quads enough so I do modified leg extensions with weights in a bag hooked on my ankle, where I only extend the last 30 degrees or so which avoids aggravating the knee. I'm hoping Glucosamine and easier miles for a couple weeks will take care of the rest..maybe arch supports if it looks like a form problem that keeps coming back.

But yeah, I have scrawny stick legs and that probably makes me land more on my heels and with stiffer knees which could make the knee track off, where people who have worked out sometime in the past 10 years will absorb the impact of their steps more with muscles. That's my self-diagnosis anyway...sorry, long answer to a simple question (I've been Googling this all day at work).

Hey I forgot you were a nurse, does that sound about right to you, treatment-wise?

Heehee I am a nurse but nursing school doesn't teach much about sports injuries! Most of my knowledge is from lots of googling and unfortunate experience. Personally I don't lift weights although a lot of runners do--I do drills including one-legged squats, lunges, leg lifts, calf raises, etc...only 15 minutes or so every other day but it helps to keep my muscles in balance I think. And, when I have a new injury, I add a new exercise to strengthen that area. It seems to me that most injuries originate from weak leg muscles and ramping up miles and intensity too fast.

I guess we all become medical experts on our injured areas. Not a bad idea about the strength training - trying to run on these matchsticks I call legs is bound to lead to some scraping and grinding without any meat inbetween, so to speak.

That's really tough to be suffering through injury. Hang in there! I've been adding some strength training (upper body primarily) and I've actually started to really enjoy it and am working it into my workouts more. I just have to get over the humbling experience of when a buff dude gets off the bench press machine and I have to move it from 200 lbs to 50 lbs. :-)