Let the waiting begin.

I saw my knee specialist yesterday. He has such an excellent bedside manner, it is truly amazing. He said it feels like the arthritis in the knee has gotten worse and he's concerned about my medial knee pain, since that's not where I injured myself. Thankfully he decided to order another MRI instead of just giving me pain pills as a bandaid. I'm looking forward to getting a baseline on the degeneration and finding out why I get such crippling pain multiple times a day on the medial side.
Of course I Dr. Googled it. It's impossible not to with today's technology. Dr. Google says the medial pain could be an mcl strain or tear, damage to the meniscus I "nicked", radiating pain from my arthritis (this one I doubt since the pain doesn't start where I have arthritis so how can it radiate), or fun-sounding free-floating pieces of cartilage that periodically run into the ligaments and soft tissue inside the knee. I really have no clue what the issue is but I'm happy to find out finally.
So after my appointment I went for a run. I had done a livestrong workout earlier so my legs were heavy. I tried not to beat myself up about my pace or my walk breaks but I did push myself to get in 4km before calling it a day. I did the run at my new favorite trail. Happily I was pretty much on my own the whole time, which was very peaceful. I even saw a rabbit hopping past on an adjoining trail.
I still plan on doing the 27km trail run in June, but depending on how quickly I get the mri done it could be a go or not. Around here mris are done on a triage basis so I could be waiting 2 months or 2 years if my case is not deemed serious enough. There's no way to know, you just get to wait by the phone and hope you get in for the test before you are too disabled to move. Last year, after I had cracked my kneecap, my mother spent the money on a private mri after 5 weeks of me hobbling on crutches. This year I'm in much better shape so I think I can wait this out.