Tag: Rebuild
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Week 8: Marathon Szn
38% Training Block Completed “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” 6/26: Recovery Run The thunderstorms of the morning sent me to the dread tready. It meant that I could sleep-in, which was very welcomed! I took my…
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Week 5: Marathon Szn
“The true height of your potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but how far you’ve climbed to get there.” 6/4: Easy runThe run felt like mud and I had a hard time finding positivity. Not every day is filled with sunshine and butterflies, but every day is an opportunity to show…
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Week 3: Marathon Szn
5/21: Easy Run AM + Strength PMThe assignment was an “easy” run, except now the volume of easy is longer than before. That’s how marathon season goes: short runs become longer and longer runs become weekend adventures. Since the skeleton was still feeling Sunday’s long run and Saturday’s strength training, I knew I had to…
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Week 2: Marathon Szn
5/15: Medium run + strides As I was prepping for this week, I was working on some mental skills drills (which are so valuable) and I stumbled upon this phrase in my journal: “Breathe in strength, Breathe out weakness.” It really hit me when I thought about it – everything really does come down to…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
Re-Energized Running 