2018 3M Half Marathon Race Report
I think there were questions regarding my sanity when I decided to run 3M Half Marathon on Sunday. I think most of my endurance athlete friends understand, but I’m sure that a lot of non-athletically minded folks didn’t understand why in the world I would want to run a race unprepared. Let’s back up to June when I first started having troubles with my knee. Running became pretty much impossible. I had pain with every run and sought professional help from two sources. Ultimately, an orthopedist diagnosed me with “chondromalacia patella” more colloquially known as “runner’s knee.” Fantastic. I was already signed up for 3M, but he told me if I was careful with my training, I should be okay. I wasn’t okay. Anytime I ran more than a couple of times in a week and combined it with a “long” run on the weekend, my knee protested. Eventually, I threw in the towel and wrote off 3M after limping back to the house at the end of a 5 mile run in early November. I decided I just wasn’t going to be a