Good evening all. I am after some urgent help. I am competing in a Tough Mudder event this Saturday, raising funds for Help for heroes. I have been training for months, running up to 11 mile distances with relative ease.

That was until saturday when I had to stop at the mile and half point with pain to my knee. It had felt slightly tight for a week or two before. Please bear with my explanation of the pain:

It hurts most if I go down on my left (good) knee and lean my hips forward, the pain shoots down the right hand tendon (I think) of the right knee, from the knee upwards. Stops half way up my thigh. the pain is similar when running or just getting up off the sofa.

I am ex military so I know how to do my stretches and stretch before and after every exercise. I also play a lot of football and am quite a quick, pacey runner.

I know the best idea would be to rest my knee, but I cannot pull out of this event as I am raising funds for an ex colleague in the army who recently lost his leg in Afghan, I feel like I can't let him down> i am also running part of a team, which again I feel I can't let down.

I would go to the doctor but I start a new job this week so getting time off would not be possible.

All I need to know is how to treat this in such a short space of time, is exercise any good, stretching, heat, ice?? I really don't know.

I would really appreciate any help at all.

Many thanks in advance.

Andy

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