Discussion: Aieee

I hope it all heals up... best wishes, don't give up!

Giving up may not be the right phrase, but , you know, I have not been racing in H21 for ages, been running age classes 40 and 45. I don't need to do any technical training, skills are there (except sprint). I don't need to do excessive running specific workouts and such - at H50+ it's not about being extremely fast runner, its about not being injured, not having overweight and being reasonably fit in general. So, the way to do well in future may not be running every day, it may be better running only twice a week but instead do cycling, roller skiing, hill walking, gym and such - to stay fit in general and injury free or at least avoid injuries you get for doing too monotonic running specific training. Terrains here are soft, tough and slow - general fitness and strength is more important than good road/track speed. But of course it is possible I should have gone to softer type of exercises years ago.

I was referring to football as much as orienteering, but yes.

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Hope you get things (knee/legs/whatever) in order to be able to still be active and take part in occasional O events also in the future.

I´ve been running with a bad knee for 10 years now (not as bad as Hammers obviously) but never had anything done to fix it...

It works OK from time to time but as you say, not good enough for doing much running specific training any more. Roller skiing and XC skiing is fine, haven´t done much cycling yet but recently bought a used MTB. Gym is always good to strengthen the muscles around the knee as long as the knee itself can take the load.

Good luck!

My case should not be too bad, most likely, yet. Loose/broken parts of meniscus are causing trouble. She told there is no any major hurry to do anything right now, and it is possible it settles without any operations. But when I asked what she suggest she said it may be better to operate it to make sure those broken parts will not do any additional damage.

Now I need to decide what to do. She is used to talk to athletes, so she may think I am in hurry to get back to training and racing - like young athletes are - so the danger is the knee does not get time to settle well enough. I am not a young athlete and I can happily sit on our sofa a year or too, so that may not apply to me. On the other hand If I got it right those broken parts will not do much anything useful there even if they settle and stay out of the way, so it might not be bad idea. to operate it. On the other hand the settle approach has worked quite well with my ankles, there must be lots of debris down here and ankles have been doing just fine. But might have don fine with cleaning operation. Not sure, but I guess I will end up having operation.

Note, I haven't had any twists or accident lately, that meniscus may have been broken/torn for years without me noticing anything, so i was a bit afraid there might have been some additional and worse damage for it. But apparently not, or at least any such damage was not mentioned but should be seen in MRI I think.
So this may end well, temporarily - joints will not last forever but on the other hand we are not here forever either.

I feel your pain. I really hope your story has a happy and pain-free next step!

Thanks, and I yours - I have been lurking at your log and noticed I my everyday life here may already be more pain free than yours there.

BTW MinnaR is trying ACP treatment for the hamstring syndrome. I know you had and still has it too, did you ever try that method?