Not wanting to push my luck I rested a few days before doing anything else, got back to the pool and completed another leisurely mile swim. Further rest until the following Sunday and back out on the open road again, well for about mile before it all came crashing down around me. I had to limp myself home in the most pain I've been in since October. Sore, devastated & frustrated (hence having no interest in posting for so long!)
A further visit to the docs as I'm now in more pain all over the knee and it transpires I have patellofemoral pain - basically another ligament is shot. More stretches, more exercises and still I wait for the injection.
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So after a week of no exercise whatsoever I managed to drag myself back to the squash court (and win a game!) on Monday, get out on the bike for 18k on Tuesday - it didn't break any records but felt good to be back and tonight complete 3 sets of 400m back in the pool tonight. Whilst this may seem fairly trivial it does feel like I am on the road back, the injection is due next week so I'll by nil by foot again while that kicks in all the while continuing stretching & strengthening as well as investigating the possibility of some physio/bio-mechanical testing to find the root cause of the frustration then progressing to some more gait analysis all in the hope of future prevention from ever having the ITB pain again - trust me you do not want to know.
In other news the new steed could shortly be on the way and I have already eyed up some short circuit bike racing too - what's the worst that could happen ;-)