This is going to sound strange, but...
YEAH! IT'S TENDONITIS!
Or Bursitis... or a strained ligament... or possibly the ligament slightly tore away from the bone...
I'm not a doctor, but I am 95% convinced that my knee pain is NOT a torn meniscus. Yesterday, after the pain subsided to a point where I can pinpoint it, I used one of those vibrating massage thingies and ran it over my knee. I instantly felt pain on the side of my tibia, at the crook where the bone starts to widen to form the top head underneath the knee. My research shows that this is where the Medial Collateral Ligament joins the tibia. I jumped for joy when I found this out, because that means it is not a meniscus tear! A meniscus tear would emanate from the joint line, not from the side of the tibia. Besides, I highly doubt that running for a mile two or three days per week would damage the meniscus.
At any rate, I made the decision to cease running until I get my new shoes in. They were ordered last week and have since arrived. I will be picking them up on Saturday. In the meantime, I will go to the gym for a little crosstraining, and I will be doing some stretching to try to loosen up these ligaments.
Hopefully the new shoes will help out.
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