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September 27th 2009 I finished a Marathon. I didn't run again until Dec 6th. Took the next 8 weeks building my mileage back up. I have finally strung together 3 consecutive 50+ weeks. Right now there is a little throbbing at the stress location but I think that's because I read this.
It still does not feel normal.....but niether does my shoulder and that surgery is 3 years old.
I do get twinges here and there.....not so much achiness as much as it is very sensitive to getting bumped and thumped. I'm kinda training for a mid May Marathon.....I say kinda because in early Febuary I thought it was out of the question.....now I'm pretty confident I could run it....but my weekends look like crap and I don't think I can get my long runs in....and I ramble.
Hope this helps !
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I don't remember so well even though I had a fracture in my knee less than 3 years ago. Probably that period of it feeling odd lasted most of a year for me. And it maybe was more paranoia over-awareness on my part.
I think the main thing is every time that area feels a little different you are prone to think - what's wrong? I have aches and twinges in lots of places that I think were never fractured. I mostly don't suspect anything serious in those places. Now pain would be worth paying attention to.
The doctor most likely knows how to recognize that it is healed ok.
Chris.....it's funny that you say that. I couldn't agree more.
This is something I posted in the Masters Group back on Jan 8th.
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I sure could use some of deez4boyz's Mojo......My swimming has just plain sucked this week. Just no get-up-and-go......Set out to do a hard set of 10 x 25's and end up hanging on the wall after 6......
Tonight will be #3 of a three day running streak. I'm as giddy as a little girl.......
I've been sidelined before because of injuries......Shoulder Surgery, an Auto Accident that dislocated my hip....but I have never been sidelined because of an actual running injury.......The comeback is different.....it's harder mentally....it's worrisome.....it sucks.
There is this snapshot I have of the pain I experienced........now when I'm running, every little twinge is compared to that previous snapshot and I have to decide......go,... back off,... stop...or check again in a little bit.
Then there are the ups. You make quick reflex type turn on the injured leg......because of recent history you brace yourself for that sharp shard of pain....but it doesn't come......you smile.....your mending and you know it.
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Every day I'm shuffling....
I don't half-ass anything
"I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death' and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up." - Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning
I hammered down the trail, passing rocks and trees like they were standing still.
Will it ever just feel normal, like I never had the fracture?
yes. It will feel normal. I took 2 weeks off running thinking I had another torn calf muscle, then stupidly ran a half marathon August 16 and ended up not being able to walk after. I had a sfx that went around the middle of the tibia and traveled up the back almost to my knee. I didn't run again until Oct 27. After a week or so, I took another week off because of phantom pain. Then another 3 weeks off in Dec/Jan. The problem was that I was so out of shape that everything hurt. I also bought a new kind of shoe when I started up again and found out in Jan, it wasn't a good fit.
The sfx stopped hurting sometime in Jan. Just in the last 4 or 5 weeks, I've realized I've been running pain free...something I never thought would be possible.
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