Week 2 (July 21 - 27): Stretching out the kinks

Subjective/Objective
         34 y/o female appearing younger than stated age with chief complaint of transient sharp anterior knee pain.  No pain at rest.  Pain worsens with sudden changes in movement while running.  Past medical history significant for patellar tendonitis (which knee unknown), binge marathon running, possible sporadic and inconsistent training; P.  160 cm, 59.1 kg.

Assessment/Plan
         Rule out recurrent runner's knee, iliotibial (IT) band syndrome.  Try knee cap stabilizer band (already has) and foam roller exercises.  Emphasize well-balanced nutrition and adequate stretching and resting.  Maybe start light yoga again!  Avoid activities aggravating pain when not running (i.e. stairways at work).

Pros this week -
Found it easy (routine) already to get in my car and get to the Thursday Night Fun Run group (open to public).  Nice to see a couple of familiar faces from the marathon training group there getting in an extra group practice as well.  Saturday - overcast -loved it and took advantage of the hiding sun and 'rested' little/no pain knee to have a good continuous run.

Cons -
WTH with this knee?  All I know is that is I have to go slow, take it easy and no sudden starts or changes in direction while running.  And definitely not the Tuesday running backward up the hill exercise (that was the worst pain it felt)

Going to rest this weekend and continue to work on adequately hydrating.  Oh and dig out my Garmin watch so I can figure out what and how to do 'splits' :)

Any tips on how to get through this runner's knee? 

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Run stats:

WEEK 2		Mileage	Duration (hr:min:sec)	Pace (min/mile)
Mon	22-Jul	Xtrain	0:30:00	Stationary bike
Tues	23-Jul	4.76	0:51:19	10:46
Wed	24-Jul	2.21	0:34:43	15:41
Thurs	25-Jul	5.31	1:08:18	12:52
Sat	27-Jul	6.05	1:05:27	10:48
Total weekly mileage		18.33