New Goals

My knees generally don't like to run anymore...it's just a fact that I have come to realize. But my feet are even worse. I couldn't shake the plantar fasciitis, so I stopped running for a few weeks. Sure enough the pain is almost entirely gone.

However, my knees and feet don't mind ice-skating, and after 3 months of practices, I'm playing games with my new team. I still wear my functional knee brace (and will forever), but I seem to have very little pain and no problems ice-skating. So, for now my goal is to make them...every game. I'm skating 2-3 times per week, and playing hockey is a great workout. I love it. I'm still considering an Olympic distance triathlon this year (I know...why), but right now my focus is on hockey, swimming, coaching my kids, and getting back on my road bike now that the weather is good. I don't know that I want, need, or should do any distance running anymore.

I've read a lot of studies that say the MT will last 10 years, and then you either get another one or do a PKR. I'm hoping that study is wrong since I'm having too much fun, but I would do this surgery again for 10 more years of this.

I'm still having a strange "popping out" sensation in my MT knee once and a while. It hadn't happened for months, and then it happened last weekend messing around. It only happens when my muscles are relaxed, and pops back in when I straighten my leg. It's pretty gross, but it doesn't hurt, and it goes back in and I'm pretty much good. Not sure what's causing it or what it even is (seems like my entire lower leg is out of place), but if it happens only 6 times a year I can live with it.

Hang in there...it gets better.