Category: Rehab
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Patience on the Plateau
R4R Level 4, Part 1“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” One of the things that you can control is your attitude towards whatever it is that you face. You can be tossed a hand of cards you never deserved in the first place and…
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Toughness on the Journey of a New Sport
“Real toughness is coming to terms with who we are and what we face, and making sense of and finding meaning in that struggle.” – S. Magness – What is toughness? Toughness is sitting outside between lightning strikes writing this blog because I refuse to be inside. Actually, that is probably more like stubbornness. Toughness…
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The Dark Side of Endurance Running
Have you: skipped breakfast for a long run? Ran race after race every weekend (or more than one per training season)? Participated in group posts/threads about who’s racing this weekend and where? Taken your easy days way too hard? Not carried any fuel or hydration for endurance activities longer than an hour? Obsessed over who…
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From Symptoms to Solutions in 25 days
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates “What?! How is this even possible again?” These were the words from my husband in my Bluetooth speaker as I drove from a sleepless night filled with hip imaging to my Sports…
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Hip Ship Shenanigans
[Week of 6/19: Marathon Season Paused] Monday: I hopped a quick jet trip over Lake Michigan to see my Coach for my pesky problem-child hip. There’s something still wrong with it and if anyone can help me get back on track, it is my Coach. I’m always very confident in his assessment and evaluation, since…
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Pivot and Adapt
“Embrace failure. Missteps and roadblocks are inevitable. They are an opportunity to learn and pivot with a new perspective.” Monday 6/5Supporting session day was on deck today, to the tune of a 12hr work day. My body was ready for a dropweek after cranking out 38 miles last week and that means it’s time to…
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Rehab Revolutions, One Year Later
As I have surpassed one year of rehabbing from two bone stress injuries (July 2021), I also have reached one year of rehabbing from a benign pelvic mass (August 2021). As I look to the future on what I would like to accomplish to my high standards of satisfaction, I have reflected on how I…
Re-Energized Running 