Ever have a knee scoped??

[Duck on Wheels]

Not sure if it is relevant, but I have had my knee scoped without any actual surgery happening in the process. They just wanted to go in an look. I had an epidural, rather than general anasthetic and could watch on the tv-screen while the doctor showed me the inside of my knee. I thought it was pretty cool! but then I am a biologists.....Basically, they were going in with the scope to diagnose the problem. Turns out I had torn my acl. I was out of the hospital the following day, and off the crutches in a few days. I did get some PT to get mobility back in my knee and rebuild the muscles in that leg. And I was back doing figure skating just a month or two later. I never did get around to getting the reconstructive surgery and I've not been too bothered with that knee, but then I'm not training for IM either so I don't know how much it would be affected.

Not only back on skates, but that was your landing leg (think speed + impact + torque) and a month after getting back on skates you landed an axel and a double salkow in competition and won your category -- only time you ever landed both of those in the same session. That was, what 12 years ago? In TE context, you could mention that you completed the ALC6 last summer, every last mile of it and lots of training in advance, though not at competition speed. But it does show that one can ride a bike without an acl in one knee, long as you've taken the time and effort to build up the surrounding muscles.