As I write this post I am lying on my belly, one bent leg held unceremoniously aloft as I perform my physiotherapy exercises. Since Birmingham Marathon (which I finished in 5 hours and 10 minutes, chock -a-block full of ibuprofen & limping) I have done a couple of truly agonising recovery runs, had a rest week, then had one last test run; which was on October 30th. That Monday I ran the 2.5 miles to work, cried, showered & phoned the physio to get an appointment. The niggling hip pain I had been experiencing in the build up to the marathon had been aggravated by the non-stop 26.2 miles and turned into a full blown run-preventing injury.
Two weeks of no running later and I finally had my appointment. I spent the hour walking up & down corridors being watched, hopping, bending my knees to touch walls, and being generally wiggled, measured & manipulated. By the end of it she decided that the best course of action was for me to get an x-ray for a possible stress fracture of the hip. An unusual but serious running injury. As well as being under orders to go & get that done as soon as possible (which I managed to do the next morning), I am currently also under orders not to run, not to cycle, and for the time being to also cut down on the amount I am walking. Not what I wanted to hear. Life isn't always about getting to hear what we want though. So despite the fact that I have only achieved 845 miles of the 1000 I had set myself I have to stop. The physio tells me it is going to be a long time until I will be running 20-30 miles in a week again. It hurt to hear that, but it will hurt more if I don't listen. I did my best to run 1000 miles, from having only started running ~6 months before the challenge started, but the challenge literally broke me. Now I will have to content myself with the 1360km I have achieved, await the results of the x-ray, and continue with my exercises:
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorChloe is running 1000 miles to raise money for Global Action Nepal. She's also an engineer and a Mum. Archives
August 2017
Categories |