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Hi all. So I sprained my knee (grade 1 MCL sprain) last week doing some sight-seeing while on a work trip in Europe. Basically I tripped on a thing and my foot/ankle went one way and my knee went the other as I fell awkwardly and my MCL was what gave. The good news is that it's a very mild knee sprain as far as knee sprains go. The bad news is that I have to stay off my feet as much as possible for 2 weeks and then phase stuff in "as pain allows". I am very bad at "as pain allows". My pattern, when I'm injured, is either do nothing* or "tough it out" by out-stubborning anything that can be out-stubborned and get reinjured. I don't really do moderation well. Sometimes I'll alternate the two and overdo it one day and then do nothing the next. Regardless, this is a bad pattern, and I know it's bad. Both for recovery and for general fitness. So I am looking for advice on what I can do (without swimming - my asthma reacts to chlorine which means I can't swim at any of the pools in town except for the Y which is outrageously expensive) to keep up my activity level in a region where the roads are still ice-covered (which rules out biking - I am not skilled enough a cyclist to be able to ride safely in wintery conditions) and avoid losing too much ground on the fitness front while my knee heals - and for advice, especially from runners, on how to phase activity back in on a knee sprain seeing as how I'd signed up for a 10K at the end of May and I'd like to try to still make it if possible. I know I can prep for a 5K in a month so if needed I'll drop to the 5K, but I was hoping to keep the 10K but I dunno if that's reasonable (see above about out-stubborning anything that can be out-stubborned.** My default approach to injury setbacks is barrel through and hurt myself. I'm trying not to reinjure myself this time). *I'm a Maritimer and a base brat and so I had a less polite phrase here on my first draft - OT but how much cursing is acceptable here? I'm ok with self-censoring but I just am curious if I should do. **I ran my first 10K last fall on three hours of sleep and a raging asthma attack which had me at 65% of my normal lung capacity. My time was terrible and I damn near landed myself in the ER and it was a very bad idea to even try, but I finished. I am not kidding about outstubborning anything that can possibly be out-stubborned. I need someone to metaphorically smack my hand and tell me no when I have a bad idea like running a 10K in the middle of a moderate asthma attack. Or doing my shodan grading with a lung infection instead of waiting a year. Or I could go on.