Singing an ode to aches and pains

I am currently in a painful stage. Since my 5k experience 2 weeks ago. I've had a lot of knee pain. So I laid off the running and just kept doing strength training things mixed with cardio. I've been doing step aerobic and spin classes. AND THIS DREADFUL 24 hour fitness BOSU circuit class. SO PAINFUL and UNSTEADY yet so cool at the same time. My schedule has not permitted me to go back to the class but I am in the process of rearranging schedule so I can have it as a cross training class.

Anyhoo back to the aches and pains. My knee has been giving me so much trouble and its so annoying. Just when I'm feeling extremely strong like I can conquer the world my knee acts up and set me back. But its ok I will survive!

My housemate is a physical therapist and he told me to ice it after workouts and don't do anything that hurt! The one problem with that is that I live at the top of a steep flight of stairs and going down them hurt. So to avoid pain I had to hobble down using only one leg as my main support.

A bit inconvenient and my other knee started hurting as a result. But I was finally cleared to run again and that's what i did yesterday. But I did it on the treadmill to go easy on the knees, a 25min warm up on the elliptical and then a 45min run on the treadmill. DURING the first 15min of the run i felt awful but the rest was a lot easier. AFTER, IT WAS GREAT! I was sweaty and sore! TODAY my hips hurt a bit but its to be expected I guess. I just have to keep going.