It started with just playing softball in the summer, then soccer in the fall until I was in the 6th grade, when Fall Ball became available. Once I got to high school, I was playing spring (school), summer and fall (rec league) and then conditioning in the winter.
By the time I was 15, my knee was done.
I blame it on an accident I was in when I was in Jr. High; some Psyco women was speeding along on her bike on the bike trail and clipped my handlebar and knocked me over. My knee was tangled in my bike, and then I had to ride it home - 3 miles. It was a swollen bloody mess by the time I got home. My knee wasn't the same after that.
I've had surgery, I've had physical therapy, I've had cortisone shots. It acts up every once in a while, stormy days, roughhousing with the kids, long days in high-heel shoes.
I didn't get on the bike yesterday, I couldn't. I could barely walk. My knee hasn't been this painful in I don't know how long. It's not swollen, but tender to the touch. I hate pain medication, and neither Tylenol or Advil do a darn thing for me. So a few days off of the bike this week.
It's time to focus on upper body strength, because that is the part of the Mudder that will be the most challenging to me. The Funky Monkey in particular scares me, since I sat and watched teams for an hour while waiting for Steve's team. Out of a few hundred people, only a handful actually made it across the 10 feet of scaling monkey bars (which was over a cold dirty pool of water).
Well, let's give it a shot. I've got some free weights, Steve's weight bench and a nifty pull-up/push-up contraption. Let's build some muscles!
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