Well, I might salvage some of this cycle. My knee is mostly healed. I still feel it just a tiny bit, but it doesn't bother my running.

Last week was a pathetic 20 miles with only one quality workout, which was light LT training (3 x 1 mile with 2 minutes rests). My knee was hurting for the whole week. I did not run on Friday and skipped my race on Saturday.

Then Sunday, my knee felt fine, and I ran 12 miles. Then today, I did 6 x 4 minutes of hard running with 3 minutes jogs. Tomorrow I might do a light LT training. Very unorthodox, I know, almost 3 quality workouts on consecutive days, but I must improvise. Because I decided to not skip my next Saturday race (on April 25). We'll see what I can do then.