The Wind and The Knee, Part 2

All that bitchin' and moanin' about my knee yesterday, and I never went into the rest of the day!

Yesterday was my first day off the original Whole30! I say the "original" Whole30 because I'm not planning on ending it, I planning on just changing it as discussed in a previous post. While packing up for the ride Friday night, I licked the Infinit stir spoon just to get the whole thing (no pun intended) over and done. There, I did it.

I only sipped a little Infinit and ate half a Powerbar in the ride. I only did 2hrs instead of the planned 4, so   I didn't need more calories in addition to the lara bar  and banana I ate before the ride.  Everything tasted OK, I didn't go into a sugar coma, and I didn't keel over from shock. But I did come home craving "something" and I've associated these cravings with poor sugar planning in the past. But I had some of these cravings even on the Whole 30, it's an unsatisfied munch-munch-munch with no happy ending usually. It wasn't until I had two servings of egg whites that I finally said "ahhhhh".

Today I skipped my run to rest the knee. I meant to ice it more but didn't get around to it as much as planned. I've been playing with it to test and define the problem. It's not the MCL as I debated yesterday, I think it's up in the quads. DH very kindly did a few of the tests mentioned on the interwebs for MCL and all came back negative. But there's no discoloration, tenderness, or pain on moving the knee. The pain is specific to weight bearing activity like stair climbing, standing from a chair, and the downstroke of pedaling.

I'm still convinced it's not a tear or break or serious injury. CP used the word tendonitis, which is a different process, one treated by ice and NSAIDS.  Should I follow that route? LOL, I'm already icing, aren't I?

I need to stay calm, be patient, and not rush this.