Tell us about your first running injury (Read 808 times)

knifey Glad to hear you are healthy. Yes sitting is horrible. I am still sitting on my fancy expensive wheelchair cushions. I have one in my car, one in my office and one on my couch. I can still feel it a bit when not sitting on these cushions or when I am a bit courageous and want to do a bit extra. My butt says, "slow down buddy". My isolated pain on ischial tuberosity is gone it is just a bit of radiated discomfort occasionally. I do't ever want to get this problem back even it mean no more intensity (other than races). I am very leary of sprints but if I am going to play softball this year I need to start doing some faster striders and building on them. I haven't yet.

minor...shin splints..wasnt religious about new shoes then major... tear in calf muscle.. after 1st born my feet totally changed and I was struggling to find the right shoe while training for a marathon and way overweight. Ended up with a brand new pair for a hilly half marathon.

I started running when I was one. About one second later, fell down go boom. My first serious running injury, though, was a bruised bone on the top of my left foot. Solved it by staying off the foot as much as I could for a few weeks and, then and thereafter, making some lacing adjustments to take the pressure off that spot on both feet.

My first major injury was hip bursitis. I joined a 24 hr relay event for charity where we took turns running a mile on a track. I ran 19 miles in the same direction (dumb) with very little training. I couldn't run again for 4 months and then I still had pain. It happened again several years later after overtraining. I took 2 months off, but it still bothered me after a couple of miles. My doctor told me to take Aleeve religiously, twice a day for 10 days to keep the swelling down. That did the trick.

Aside from horrible shin splints that I used to get in HS (taped up and ran with them anyhow like a fool). My most recent experience with a running injury was last fall when I did something to my right hamstring while doing a speed workout. That hurt! It gave me a difficult time for quite a while and still flares up every now and then with speed workouts.

Here's a different one: Chronic Exertional Anterior Compartment Syndrome (similar symptoms of shin splints)... where the left leg (front muscle) compartment occaisionally does not expand sufficiently during exercise, causing extreme internal pressure and severe nerve pain. I developed this in my 2nd year of running which was 2006, and never knew whether I would be able to complete a run, have to walk or stop, or be able to race. Self-diagnosed online and confirmed by a sports doc. My right leg has always been just fine. Had sucessful surgery on July 30, 2007 - was back to running in less than 3 weeks after that and am now approaching 40 MPW. Also, I have run 2 half marathons since then. Aside from normal soreness and stiffness, I've had some minor nicks and strains, but I always back off when I notice... Bill

I ran for about 18 months and trained for two HMs without injury. (Well, there was that knee thing but I did that falling down some wet stairs. Not running related.) Then I got stupid. I pulled my hamstring. Just a twinge really. But rather than taking some time off I jacked up my training and added speedwork. Then I ran a very hilly 80-mile relay and a half marathon within two weeks and despite limping the last couple of miles while clutching my hamstring, I kept trying to run and slathering on the Bio-Freeze and ODing on Advil. Even collapsing on the track a week or so later (and freaking out all the old people who walk there!) didn't stop me. I kept trying to run and eventually that minor pull turned into a major tear and I pretty much have just gotten back to where I can run pain-free again and the injury happened last May. I *finally* took the docs advice and just quit trying to run and, well, it healed. I guess that "No Running!" means "No Running At All!" Duh! Teresa