I am a semi-superstitious person in that I am hesitant to say things unless I know for certain they are true for fear of jinxing whatever I am talking about. So, saying I am recovered from my IT Band injury may be something that I never really end up saying. For now, let’s just say things are [...]
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Six Weeks Later
Saturday I decided to take my leg out and give it a little test run on the trails. It had been far too long since I had dirt underneath my running shoes, so although I was really nervous for this run, I was really excited for it too. I dusted off my trail running shoes [...]
Doctor’s Orders
Monday night I went back to ART, just every other Monday for the last few weeks. It had been 2 very long weeks since I was told not to run, and this week I was cautiously optimistic that I might be told running is ok. Even just a tiny bit. Each week when I walk [...]
With A Little Help…
So apparently I took a little blogging break. I guess I was following the motto “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” hence nothing at all on the blog. After my last post where I wrote about all the progress I had made mentally with this injury, I was [...]
Progress
Over the past week, I have noticed a lot of progress in myself. Not necessarily in my leg, though I hope that is coming along, but more in my general attitude towards this injury. At first I was really sad, and I will admit I did cry a few times. I didn’t want to think about not running [...]
No Running
I had this positive, peppy post drafted in my head last week that I never ended up sitting down to write. It was going to talk about my rest week, my ART appointment, and how I was very hopeful that I would be as good as new this week. While I would love to sit [...]
Patience
Patience has never been one of my strongest virtues, in fact, it might be my worst. Right now it’s definitely being tested. I tried my best to be patient with recovery after AR50. This race was a whole new level of running and endurance and training, so I have to expect for my body to [...]
