{"id":1942,"date":"2010-04-12T13:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2010-04-12T13:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:33:47","slug":"almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The swelling on my knee has slowly gone down with Aleve and ice. \u00a0Each day it seems that there is an improved range of motion and less stiffness. \u00a0There has really only been pain when the knee is forced to bend too much. \u00a0The worst of the pain is while driving and the knee is bent at that odd angle with weird forces and pressure being applied. \u00a0Up until the end of this past week I&#8217;ve been using my left foot to brake! It seems as if all the swelling\/fluid is gone but it still seems that my knee looks a little funny.  I go back to the doctor today (Monday) so we&#8217;ll see what she wants to do.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise it was a good week.  I actually did some yard work on Sunday and that was good.  Not sure what we are going to do with our new flower gardens\/landscaping &#8211; anyone got some cheap ideas?<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night we volunteered at the Casting Crowns concert with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"World Vision\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\">World Vision<\/a>.  One of my best friends is the World Vision rep on their tour and it was at the Xcel.  We got into the concert for free, got to hang out with my friend, and help recruit new child sponsors.  It was a lot of fun and through the concert over 200 new children have a sponsor!  What a great evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One Post<\/strong> this week is my 2008 discussion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/maasai-take-on-london\/\">Maasai running the London Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/288750b3-71b9-4204-8eec-a0037196d5c8\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swelling on my knee has slowly gone down with Aleve and ice. \u00a0Each day it seems that there is an improved range of motion and less stiffness. \u00a0There has really only been pain when the knee is forced to bend too much. \u00a0The worst of the pain is while driving and the knee is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1945,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/back-on-the-bike\/","url_meta":{"origin":1942,"position":0},"title":"Back on the Bike","author":"crossn81","date":"April 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Some excellent news this week. I had blood work drawn on Monday to test for at least 6 different things including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and lyme disease. \u00a0Thankfully, everything came back normal!! This is great news! And bad news, this really means that we have no idea why the knee\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Running&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Running","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/my-running\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Landscaping - Hard Day's Work","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4037\/4533405376_c8c4a2c460_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1918,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/a-real-goose-egg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1942,"position":1},"title":"A Real Goose Egg","author":"crossn81","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"My knee isn't getting better. It might be getting worse. A visit to the Sports Doctor last Monday revealed no new information. \u00a0There is fluid on the knee, the x-ray doesn't show anything, all of the manipulation tests are fine. \u00a0It could be an injury and the knee is swelling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Running&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Running","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/my-running\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1960,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/testing-the-knee\/","url_meta":{"origin":1942,"position":2},"title":"Testing the Knee","author":"crossn81","date":"April 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Image by crossn81 via Flickr I finally took the knee out for a test run. \u00a0I'll rate it a B-. \u00a0It didn't really hurt on a 3.4 mile run at the flat part of Lebanon Hills. \u00a0I figured an easy run on trails would be a good test back for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Running&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Running","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/my-running\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"First Run Back","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4038\/4278710453_05db4655fb_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1896,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/knee-swelled\/","url_meta":{"origin":1942,"position":3},"title":"Knee Swelled","author":"crossn81","date":"March 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What a weird week. 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