Chondromalacia
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rocknrollgirl posted 13 weeks ago.
I was diagnosed with this in Jan. I did 4 weeks of PT before I was able to start back to light training. I did 4 weeks of easy training and I am now at the end of 4 weeks of very careful training at about 75%. If I push too hard, it starts barking at me.
I am doing the PT exercises ( lifting) twice a week, stretching twice a day and rolling twice a day on a foam roller, and Ice, ice ice.
Have you considered pool running? I know some marathon runners that have done pool running exclusively and had pr's.
It is rough, I am sorry you are suffereing too.
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TriSooner posted 13 weeks ago.
I could have written the exact post before I did CDA in 2006. Spooooky. Same diagnosis. Same timing. Same meds. Hopefully, though, you won't have the same run time I had. Since I couldn't run more than 10k without really hobbling, I focussed on the swim and bike. I got my swim down from 1:22 @ IM Wisc '04 to 1:12 (:10 doesn't sound like much but we are talking about 500 places ahead) and my bike went down 30-minutes, too. But my run was a disaster. I didn't hurt during the race because I took alot of time off after the PetFem/Chondro diagnosis, but I probably "ran" 10k and walked 30k of the marathon course. Result? My bike and run time were the same. :(
So, my advice is to lay-off the run; take your meds; and focus heavily on the swim and bike. I've always heard (and believe) that the bike will help the run, but the run doesn't help the bike. You will only further delay recovery if you force the run training now. You may also want to try Glucosamine & Chondroitin. I've tried it, can't tell if it works or not, but alot of people swear by it. And finally, remember that even if you do a 1:30 swim and 7:00 bike, and :30 for T1 and T2, you still have eight hours to walk the marathon. So even if you take off from running for the next month, you can go into CDA healed and gut out the first 10k of the marathon course. The run course is tough - long, LONG climbs that keep going and going . . .
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calilargeguy posted 13 weeks ago.
Thanks for the info trisooner. Weird that the same injury happened before the same event. I'm not a great runner anyways, 2 reconstructive knee surgeries on right knee and one ankle recon on left. I was planning on hammering the swim and bike anyway so hopefully will work out for me.
So here I am 2 months out from CDA and have been having persistent knee pain, left knee, on runs over 8miles. When to an orthopaedic surgeon, luckily I work in the industry so just walked in, and had xrays and an mri. I have patellar femoral chondromalacia, and there is no real treatment other than not to run for a month. Well we all know thats not happening, and luckily my surgeon is a triathlete so he knows what the deal is. I got a cortizone shot and am on celebrex and have been given the go ahead to continue biking and swimming. Was just wondering if anyone else has dealt with this so close to an event. I have been training and planning to long for CDA, my first ironman, to back out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks