Ortho diagnosis of adductor or MCL sprain. can I still train hard & race? i had been doing about 80-85mpw and was planning to do a half marathon in 2 weeks. this week it looks like im backing off to about 50mpw but i wasnt sure if i can do more damage than good training/racing through it anyway
xray was negative so no problems there
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Yes, as a swimmer.
Polish...yummmm wrote:
Yes, as a swimmer.
well i guess my question is can i do long-term damage to it by training hard through it in short-term?
thinking of racing a half marathon in 2wks. wasnt sure if i should or not
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Both injuries are not serious. Running on it will not cause more trouble, they may both get inflamed however. The medial meniscus is attached to the mcl, if that is torn, running on that could cause more trouble. What is mechanism of injury? Any clicking with bending the knee? The real question is if you can run fast with that pain?
no tear, minor, just annoying
I had this recently, it cleared up in approximately 16 days of easy mileage. Dont run the half if you have pain, you wont run well and you may make it worse.
Thanks, yea i really hope this goes away
future doc wrote:
I had this recently, it cleared up in approximately 16 days of easy mileage. Dont run the half if you have pain, you wont run well and you may make it worse.
what do you consider moderate mileage?