Tag: Bone Stress Injury
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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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Embrace the Mundane; Ignite under the Lights
R4R L3, Part 1 It was definitely a case of the Mondays today. Everything from my run, to my chaotic commute, to my stress-filled work day just seemed to be harder than normal. It was my first day with an alarm clock in 10 days. I also received my influenza vaccine over the weekend, so…
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Finding Rhythm and Core Values
R4R L2, Part 1 On deck today was 5min WU, (2min run/2min walk) x 10, 5min CD. The forecast was showing either high humidity in the morning or rain showers in the evening. I set my alarm, packed my stuff, grabbed my shoes, and was out the door to the marina one more time before…
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“Flowers Grow From Mud”
— B. Stulberg R4R L1, Part 1Return-to-Sport was nothing but magical. My first “run” back in 16.5 weeks felt like the flower garden after a season of mud and storms. An easy, stress-free run was on the agenda for 5min WU, (1min run/3min walk) x 10, 5min CD. Truth is, I’ve been staring at this…
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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…
Re-Energized Running 