Runner’s knee struck me down at the worst possible time – in early 2020, right before the pandemic. While everyone around me started lacing up trainers for their “daily hour of exercise”, I was unable to jog to the end of the road without pain flaring up in both of my knee joints for days.
I honestly believed that I would never run again. And after an MRI scan on my knee revealed I had “shallow grooves” in which the patella slipped around, a specialist told me to think about taking up a lower-impact sport like swimming instead. “You’re not built for running,” a specialist told me. “So maybe just don’t do it.”
