Category: Return-To-Sport
-
Return-to-Run, v3.0 (cont.)
4/29: Level 7 – Grit Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit. Grit is powering through 6 intervals in the weirdest spring heat wave and a down pour. Today’s run (7min run, 1min walk x6) was filled with grit on many levels. I slept over 10hrs and had a complete rest day yesterday to hit…
-
Return-to-Run (cont.)
4/22: Level 4 – Resiliency Resiliency is not letting failure define you. I used to dread failure – at work, at school, in life, etc. However, in some ways, I was forced to confront my uncomfortable thoughts on failure when my skeleton kept failing again and again. Everything I did just wasn’t working. There have…
-
Return-to-Run, Version 3.0
This next blog series will take you through the journey from broken bones to the finish line over the course of 24 weeks. This series will be raw with emotion – from the moments that test me to the moments that lift me. It will be all about the process, not the outcomes, of rebuilding…
-
Level 10 Achieved!
R4R L10, Part 1Tonight’s run was my first continuous run without walking since that last dreadful treadmill run on June 8th, exactly 5 months ago. I’m not sure where time has gone, yet simultaneously it also feels like the longest 5 months ever. The mind has a way to remember vivid details during injury and…
-
Distractions and Possibilities
R4R Level 9, Part 1 Today was Sunday Funday and I took my workout to the track, after a few past runs on pavement. Bone needs variety to keep from getting bored. Running is a boring sport for bone health, so it’s important I find every advantage I can in supergluing the skeleton together. It…
-
Finding My Stride
R4R Level 8, Part 1 Tonight’s run was after a long work day. I had limited time before darkness so I skipped my locomotion warmup again. I needed to get the dog walked, my run done, eat dinner, take a shower, and get to bed. I don’t always have the most ideal schedule of life…
-
Lucky Number Seven
R4R L7 Part 1 “The hard work puts you where good luck can find you.” At the end of every misfortune, there is a fountain of opportunity. Opportunity to begin again. Opportunity to fix the errors. Opportunity to write a new story. But opportunity doesn’t happen without hard work and grit. Tonight was all about…
-
Humble Hills and Slow Turtles
R4R Level 6, Part 1Since the skeleton continues to be pain-free, I progressed beyond the halfway point of this phase of return-to-sport. It’s been a long journey. Some days I get lost on my progress that I just need to see where I have come from to understand where I’m at and where I’m headed.…
-
Winning at Half-way!
R4R Level 5, Part 1 I needed tonight to go well. A wish to come true. A boost in the right direction. A thread of string to keep pulling me along this road of rehab and recovery. And the universe delivered all of this. Today is 16wks from imaging, or 112 days. I still remember…
-
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…
Re-Energized Running 