I started my training and was doing great! I was getting all my runs in and feeling good, but then one snowy day after my 10 mile long run I noticed my leg was hurting more than usual. But I didn't let that stop me and I continued to run like that for another 7 weeks! Until I just couldn't run any more! I went to the doctor and started physical therapy. I missed 8 weeks of training because I wasn't able to run. It was heart breaking but I did my best not to loose faith and get me down. I was assured by many people that my marathon dreams weren't over yet. Once I started training again I took it nice and slow, I altered my training plan and was feeling really good about it.
3 weeks ago I went out for a long run with my friend we ran 16 miles, the most I'd ever run before! I was so excited about it. Around my 10 my knee started hurting but not enough that I couldn't finish my run. That week on my 2 other training runs I was in a lot of pain, I finished one 4 mile run but couldn't finish the other. The next week when we were set to run 18 miles I taped up my legs and boy did I use a lot of tape. I wasn't quite sure what my injury was which made it hard to tape for so my right leg I taped purely for preventative measures while my left I taped a few different ways since I wasn't quite sure.
This post got the most likes on my Instagram than any oter photo I've ever posted before! Lol. Sadly my tape job didn't help in the slightest as I only made it 5.5 miles of running and had to limp another 2 miles back to my car. It was really depressing actually and I felt bad leaving my friend to run the rest of the 18 miles alone. I took the next week off from running hoping that the rest would help, I iced my knee and wore some kt tape to see if it would help. After a week of resting I woke up bright and early the next Sunday to head out and attempt to run the 18 miles again. This time I only made it 2 miles. Yep. 2 whole freaking miles and I couldn't even limp back to my car this time, I had to call my friend and shamefully ask her to come and pick me up. I haven't attempted another run since then because I know that my knee isn't better. After hitting up google I think that my knee pain is actually being caused by my it band. The only thing that is going to help it heal is time and sadly I don't have time on my side right now.
My family and I went on a fun hike this weekend, it was a shorty only 4 miles. It was absolutely gorgeous. There wasn't anything tough about it and it wasn't rough terrain, the trail was really nice and smooth.
About a little over half way into the hike my knee really started hurting, I was limping and it just wasn't pretty. I spent the next couple of days getting real with myself. As of today there are only 17 days until this race. 17 days is just not enough time to heal, on top of the 8 weeks of training I'd already missed I'm adding 3 additional weeks onto that right now. To travel over to Seattle and try to do this race and not finish would be awful. Sure I could try to run it but at this point I can hardly run 2 miles and once my knee starts hurting there is now way that I would be able to limp the rest of the race. So I had to make the hard decision to bow out of the race. It makes me extremely sad to do this, I've already invested so much time and money into this race and now to be dropping out, I feel like a failure, I feel like I've let myself and my friend down. But I need to listen to my body as well, I don't want to make this injury worse and then not be able to possibly run long distances again. I'm going to recover, refocus and start retraining and hopefully do the Spokane Marathon that's in October.
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