Knee Pain. What is This.

Last night I went out for a 2 miler, intending to just jam in a few miles before starting dinner. Yesterday was a pretty fantastic failure of a day. Not even kidding. By the time I got home and the boy pushed me out of the house to run, I was frustrated. Alas, my run did not help that.

Half mile into my two miles I felt something that can only be described as "Ow. What the eff?".

I've never had a problem with knee pain really. A little bit of tenderness once in a while, but I haven't had that in years. Back pain? Well that is a whole other story. That I would have expected and accepted as "it is what it is."

A half mile though into this short run I felt defeated. After a frustrating day the last thing I really wanted to deal with was a crappy run. Let alone a crappy run because of pain that is making me reconsider that 10k I am clearly unprepared for. I don't really know what to do at this juncture. I was up at 5am this morning, but I didn't get out of bed. However it's a start.

I think my plan of attack is to run tonight, but to stretch out my the back of my knee and IT band really good before hitting the pavement. I might even go to the gym so that if knee pain starts it is not a total loss. I feel like my only real option is running and then RICE so that I can bullshit my way through a 10k next saturday.

Hopefully it'll work out better then when I bullshitted my way through a half marathon on a back injury.