I’ve given up trying to understand the root of my intermittent, episodic knee pain.

I’m on a short holiday at the moment, sleeping on a foreign and decidedly less comfortable bed (and orders of magnitude less comfortable pillow), and for whatever reason, my sleeps have been the best yet with this injury.

Couple this with, again for whatever reason, vastly greater and different latent knee pain during the mornings and evenings.

For instance, I awoke yesterday and immediately marveled at my sleep. It wasn’t perfect, but maybe 2-3 wake-ups and no serious overnight aches as usual. But the proceeding couple of hours, my quad/patellar tendon at the kneecap experienced sharp pain with movement and much less elasticity. It was new, really uncomfortable and even a bit concerning. (Things softened up as the day went on.)

There’s no rhyme or reason. Just like in past times, days full of (or devoid of) exercise do not correlate at all to the subsequent night’s or next day’s soreness.

So whatever. I give up trying to understand it. I will just live in the moment and take whatever this silly joint will give me.

Oh yeah, week 16 done and dusted.