 glad I tried it on. My leg is uh my leg is too small. This is too big so we're gonna have to. We're awake. It's Saturday. Good morning. Here we go. New York City Marathon mug drinking out of it. It's got the map on the back. Pretty sweet. The world marathon majors but uh all right I'm off to a massage. Just working on this left knee working on it and this is day three of no running okay and I'm communicating with a lot of you on Twitter about how many days off I will take and frankly I don't know. I don't know. Taking it one day at a time. Hashtag patience I said on Twitter because it's a game of patience so that is what I'm up to and just waiting it out. Waiting it out. Seeing what uh seeing what how it responds to the lack of um of pounding so okay here we go. Glad I tried it on. My leg is uh my leg is too small. This is too big so we're gonna have to pry resort to Amazon for this one. Man just keep trying. Keep trying. All right everyone just wrapping up a little um it's called the 10s 3000. It's a little electric stimulus and it doesn't help heal the knee but it helps relieve some of the pain so maybe I can relax a little bit more so anyway that's what this was the little electrodes on my knee. It uh yeah the first time I used it it felt great so we shall see how it feels now and we're gonna open a little Christmas card real quick so this is from Utah. This arrived at the PO box yesterday. Oh here comes true love. Oh it's a it's a family Christmas card. I love it. Oh Michael's gonna love that. It's it's from uh the the she-wells so thank you. Oh we're a beautiful family. Beautiful family so four kids and a dog. They watch the uh vlog out out in Utah and then they have a note on the back. It says dear Seth true love and the boys thank you for inspiring us with the vlog. We are daily watchers and so appreciate the new community you have brought uh to us through SJD Global Running. Happy holidays and the best New Year's wishes. Ah there you go. That's so isn't that isn't that nice. Thank you. Appreciate you guys thank you so much. Oh that's fun to get a Christmas card in the PO box. Aw that's that's what it's all about. Okay it's officially Christmas break which means the crumbs increases. Crumbs are going up. Okay the boys are off with Nana at their Christmas party. I'm going into the gym get work done while they're having fun and yesterday when I swam in the pool it was a two or a three on the pain scale the knee and then by the end of the swim it was it was like a one if not a zero so it did warm up and so based on the research I've done talking to the physical therapist the massage therapist uh movement for the tendon is good because you want to bring blood to that area to help promote healing you just don't want to overdo it so I'm a little surprised it was painful at all swimming yesterday but I'm gonna just gonna see how it feels today hopefully uh hopefully it doesn't go obviously above if it goes above a three I just I just won't swim but we just got keep fighting keep trying all right let's go okay that's better so today the knee felt uh about the same as yesterday I only swam like 12 minutes I didn't go to 20 I just did you know no reason to push it in the pool but the pool plus the sauna for 20 minutes and I know I've heard like heat can sometimes mask an issue but right now I must say walking around just out to my car I didn't feel anything it was at a zero so anyway I'm just just communicating and yes I'm gonna share with you what is happening to the pain where it is shifting and I'll be curious to hear your thoughts about it once I get back to my house but uh that is the update from the pool today and the sauna okay hope you're having a great weekend oh it's just good to be good to be alive good to be alive as that sign said yesterday at the physical therapy office like you know every day we get up we eat good food we drink delicious coffee and sometimes we get to run but when we don't get to run there's always the opportunity to do so eventually emphasis on emphasis on eventually and hopefully pain-free all right here we go everyone so I still have some good good sunlight here I'm going to mark my knee okay so I'm just trying to find the right position where you can see the knee good so here is the patella right here here's the kneecap all right so I'm going to use the blue marker to show you where the knee was hurting the most and I'm not saying it's completely gone from the patella but this is where I had the most pain let's say three days ago so I'm just going to circle it this might be a little tip of the day is mark your mark your pain and see where it see if it moves I'm kind of surprised and this is not the question of the day but basically at this point right now let me just extend my leg a little bit here there we go hopefully you can still see that is the pain has shifted from right here below the kneecap to more I'm going to circle it in red all right basically right here so kind of on the edge of the kneecap on the medial side I believe it's called so the inside of the kneecap so I'm and again I'm not saying it's completely gone from the patella but now it's shifted here is this normal other runners knee sufferers out there have you as this happened to you where the pain is shifting and now as I mentioned earlier the pool and the sauna have made it feel really really good right now and this is day two day three of no running just so you know so that's a quick update okay we're going to hop on the floor get on this physical therapy here in a minute and just wanted to update you there the pain is shifting hello hello hello all right let the homework begin I'm back in school again here's my physical therapy instructions I'm going to get after it right now and I got my new ankle weights feeling good question of the day how was your long run or your race this weekend if you're racing this weekend in the northern hemisphere you're probably doing some sort of winter adventure or maybe a polar bear 5k or something or a saint Nicholas 5k I don't know but if you're in the southern hemisphere who knows maybe it's perfect perfect weather down there so oh yeah and I updated you updated you on the knee once again there it is I'll be really interested to hear some thoughts in the comments about if anybody else has experienced this situation where the pain is shifting up here so all right time to get time to get down to work putting these on and yeah I know I know it's not quite as exciting as filming up in the mountains or filming a threshold run like I did before Amsterdam but this is the beauty of YouTube is just communicating reality you know it's like reality here with the hip and the knee and all that good stuff so all right enough talking let the physical therapy at home begin I just got to make sure make sure I do it right okay all right everyone we're going to sign off then just so I can focus all right there it is knee bent onward and upward and uh okay nice and I got a the key for this one is you've got to flex your quad I do remember that or else it doesn't engage the quad correctly so you've got to flex that quad all right everyone we'll toss it back to the PT appointment two days ago and uh we'll toss it back to um something else I love you all see beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow