Tue - 3 miles
Wed - 0
Thu - 0
Fri - 0
Sat - 0
Sun - 0
Total: 7 miles
Well, I had hoped to have a great report this week, or at least something that built off last week’s 15 miles, but alas I have neither. Instead, I have two fairly lousy runs at the beginning of the week and goose eggs thereafter for a total of 7 pitiful miles. I won’t deny that I’m pretty frustrated and discouraged at this point, but I’m trying to look at things as optimistically as possible. I know I’m a week closer to being able to run again. The problem is, I just don’t know when that’s going to be.
For all the injuries I’ve had over the years, this one is starting to set a record for the length of time I’ve been knocked out. Most of the time I’ve been back on the roads within 4 or 5 weeks, but not this time. Today makes 9 weeks since I stopped running and about 10 since I started having pain. I’ve been meaning to go back and look at my other tibial stress fractures (I’ve had two, one about the same spot as this one and one up higher) and my fibular stress fracture to see how long I was out then. I’m thinking the higher tibial fracture healed faster than this one, but the other one in my tibia was back in college and I can’t remember that far back. I know it basically kept me out an entire cross-country season, so it had to be 10 weeks or so.
In any event, everything I’ve ever seen or heard says 8-12 weeks, sometimes more, so I guess I shouldn’t be expecting anything else. I am getting closer, as evidenced by the lack of soreness to the touch, the way I feel walking around, and the fact that I can at least run a little even if it is more painful than I’d like. I just can’t train consistently yet and I’m really getting the itch to do so. Hopefully I’ll feel up to trying again sometime this week and it will be a go from there. If not, I may have to
2 comments:
I remember what its like to be off for injuries. It sucks and their really is no other way to sugar coat it. I did delve into my logs very carefully and tried to learn from them. I actually have changed the way I log my runs due to my many injuries in the past. I am always monitoring one of several problem areas and yeah, I’m almost phobic about getting hurt again.
I remember using Nordic Trak, weights, hiked, learned to rock climb, and I read and studied as much as I could about my issues while I was off.
I regret very few things in my life but one of them is quitting running when I got discouraged by being off with an injury. Now that I’ve been doing this running stuff off and on for 34 years I see that the small amount of time I was off injured was microscopic in the scheme of things. I think back if only I’d hung in there, been more patient.
You have time, oceans of it. It is inevitable that you will get better, stronger, and faster.
Thanks, Steve. Good stuff!
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