Injury and Recovery

Last year’s running did not go as planned. I was ambitious and signed up for plenty of spring races and was training accordingly. Then just at the very beginning of the spring racing season as I was running a nice trail run my leg started hurting like a bad cramp. I walked the rest of the first loop hoping my leg would quit hurting. It took almost two months for my leg to get better sufficiently to start running again. I believe it must have been a stress fracture. So when I could start running again I worked on getting my running mussels back in shape and trained for the September half marathon. Training was going well and I was ready when a week before I pulled something in my leg. I rested from running for the rest of the week in hopes of being able to run the half marathon. I got up early drove over and started the race but ended up turning back and going home since my leg was not better. I needed to rest several weeks and had a slight relapse so my training had been very patchy when the November half marathon came. My leg held out for that and I was happy to be able to finish it although it challenging and I was slow as expected. I am now running regularly again if still slowly and trying not to overdo it. I am hoping to avoid more overuse injuries this year.