During the bike portion of Tinman, before the turnaround, I started to notcie my knee getting a little sore. However, I was catchin the first place guy, so I continued to hammer. Ride was great. I did feel like I wanted it to be over with. Back was getting a little sore, I was working well, wanted to run, wanted to be finished. Run went by without noticing my knee. Perhaps too many other things were tired. After sitting around after the race, and then getting in the car and driving back to Maryland, my knee was VERY stiff and still is. I have a noticable limp, it is slightly swollen, and it hurts along the back of the knee, like in the hanstring tendons. Yoga seemed to help loosen up the knee a little, and I can fully flex the knee now, but still can’t fully extend it. Walking hurts the most. Running is tough. Ironically, cycling doesn’t bother it, but seems to have caused it. I can’t go out and TT for hours right now, but an easy spin is no problem. Have been icing it before/after any activity, taking Ibuprofin, and trying to gently stretch. Any ideas on what it might be?
Rode this weekend with little or no pain, however tried to run, and could definately feel it still. Swam this morning and could feel some pressure with every upbeat of the kick. Seeing the doc tomorrow, but would like to have a better idea of what he might tell me. Anybody ever experience a pain like this?
this sounds EXACTLY like what happend to me a month ago…i felt tightness during a ride, nothing that really concerned me, but on a 7mi run the next day it got really tight/painfull and i had to stop and stretch every 5min just to get home…anyway the pain was diffuse and constand (all day, all night, when bending) at first, but definitely not an ITB thing…so i feared it might be chondro…after about a week it was more localized to the patellar tendon area…so i thought it might be patellar pain syndrome or something…(i read toomuch on the internet and freaked myself out…) anyhow i raced a sprint on it 2 wks after the first pain…(no running in the 2 wks) and did great…i wore a brace and barely felt the knee…maybe a little stiffness, but no pain… it actually felt better than ever the next couple of days…so i raced again , this race had 10mi of running , i worried about the knee, but it felt pretty good … during that week #3 i could still feel a little pain and was not running at all (other than 2 races), by the one month mark i dont feel anything, and am starting to run again, but am keeping a close eye on it and will cut a run short if i feel anything…SO… if you’re lucky you’ll be back in a month…heres what i did, got a good deep tissue massage, got new running shoes that were fit for my foot type… icing/advil after every workout, starting taking glucosamine because the actual bone/cartilage was very tender to the touch by the 2nd week ( this stuff supposedly takes months to work though…) and i got “The Stick” massager thingy because like all cyclists, my hips are ridiculously tight and are probably the cause of all my injuries…so again i’d lay off the running for a couple weeks ( i had no probs w/ swimming and only minor “sensation” while riding) , see the doc if you’ve got the appt already, and dont worry/freakout until a month has passed…
my knee hurts along the back of the knee…not in the front patellar tendon area. that’s what has me worried, because i can’t find any info on back of the knee pain, only on front. if it were the patellar tendon, at least i would know what is going on.
hopefully someone has experienced something like this before.
I’ve experienced similar back of knee pain and am in physical therapy now to deal with it. My pain came on last fall after doing a hilly 20-mile run. Pain in back of knee as well as outside of knee. At first I thought it was ITBS, and it still may be that, but the pain has persisted since then, jeopardizing my plans for a half Ironman this August and a full Ironman next fall. I’ve done the stretches and the icing and the anti-inflammatories, but pain has persisted. I go back at end of month to Doc, who may then send me for an MRI. He said it’s soft tissue injury. Could be ligament strain or partial tear; could be torn cartilege; or could be really bad tendonitis. In any case, I can bike some, but even biking strains the knee when I put too much force on pedal. So I avoid hills and big ring. Running, forget it. Did a 2-mile run last week and the knee was barking after that short run. Bottom line: I’m depressed as hell.
I´m suffering of ITBS, and I ignored the same symptoms that you are describing during my training for my first marathon ( when the ITBS arrived !!! ).
I´m sure that in my case the first signs of ITBS was this pain in the back of my knee ( and somtimes this pain was difuse… , hard to identify the exact place )…
I would recommend you to do MRI immediataly…