Caretaker/Overlook Hotel
So, I *hate* injuries. Heck, I hate when ANYTHING is wrong with me. Sick? I'm more miserable being mad than I am being sick. Hurt? I'd just as soon cut a body part off in anger than tolerate recovery.
I know quite a few folks around here lately (and the slew of knee injuries I saw Sunday in the NFL got me thinkin) and the hard-headed nature of most of us (barring a doc's specific orders or surgery or coma) means we're probably gonna keep running thru just about any common running injuries.
I'm delicately balancing my knee thing right now & trying to remember how hard I've pushed in the past. During my hip flexor injury a couple years ago, I remember trying to run after a couple days & it not happening. Took a week & no-joy. A month later, I finally got back.
What about you???
Do you resist??
Do you run thru everything but loss of limb??
Or are you a good runner & rest/recover fully with no running whatsoever until you feel 100%???
Randy
The trouble is figuring out what's an injury and what's just sort of annoying. I'll run through annoying. The question is- do I tell myself that something is just annoying when maybe it really is something more serious?
With my knee, I couldn't run through it. I tried a couple of times, but what I was doing didn't resemble running at all. But there was probably something "annoying" that I ignored that led to it becoming an actual injury. Looking back, my knee was probably stiff for a couple of months, and I ran through some weird hip thing on that same side, too.
But if I never ran when I didn't feel some sort of annoying thing somewhere, I might not run at all.
Let me preface this with DO NOT DO THIS.
in June of 2011 I was 4 miles into a 6 mile run when I felt a very bad pain in the groin region shooting down my leg. I was 2 miles from home so sort of limp-jogged home. Though I couldn't walk without pain and couldn't put my pants on without sitting down, I still managed to limp-jog 4 miles a day and participate in (it wasn't running) a July 4th 5k before I could get into the doctor in mid-July. Everything I read pointed to a pelvic stress fracture and deep down I knew that's what it was, but until I heard the words come out of the doctor's mouth and saw it for myself on the x-ray, I just wouldn't stop.
However, once I got the official diagnosis, I did everything the doctor told me with the exception of starting up biking again after 3 weeks instead of 4. I didn't run a step for 8 weeks and when I started back I started from square one with couch to 5k to give my bones and muscles a chance to build back up.
So the short answer is that I will apparently run through any pain until a doctor tells me to knock it off.
I push them as long as I can't make something worse.
In a year that I had runner's knee, I ran 1,400+ miles which included 26.2. An ortho told me that since I didn't have cartilage damage I could run in whatever pain I could tolerate without damage. I most likely prolonged my injury, and had my 2nd slowest marathon but I was happy just to run.
If I am experiencing actual pain, or the issue causes me to change my gait, I won't run. If it just causes discomfort and goes away once warmed up, I'll run through it. I will even shut down and walk it in if I get persistent ITB pain during a race, although since the ITB issues usually don't affect me going downhill, I'll still run the descents.
This is not a runner. In fact I think if you ever feel fully 100% at any time, even while not running, you are not a runner.
If I am experiencing actual pain, or the issue causes me to change my gait, I won't run. If it just causes discomfort and goes away once warmed up, I'll run through it.
Pretty much this.
Dave
delicate flower
I run until I am physically unable to. I would not offer this advice to anyone else.
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Hip Redux
I have done both. Run through injuries and stopped when I hurt and rested, etc. Most people are fairly stubborn when it comes to going to the doctor, not just running folks.
I'm not very dedicated. I've skipped runs for many reasons - dinner is ready, it's too dark or below 60 degrees, or I just don't feel like it. Maybe in part because I've avoided overtraining, I've never had a running injury in 25 years of running (with breaks of a couple months to a couple years). But that's not saying that nothing has ever been sore or hurt or I've always been 100% (have I ever been 100%?).
Several years back I hurt my foot playing basketball - a PF type injury but it happened in one foot in one split second when I jumped off it. I kept running on it reasoning that since it wasn't a chronic injury it was just pain and I wasn't damaging anything. But it didn't get better until I stopped running.
I go to a doctor about once a decade and I'm amazed how some forumites go to a doctor for the slightest thing. Last month there was a guy who went to the doctor and a pain specialist because he had side stitches when he ran really hard.
So I ignore minor aches and pains, but running isn't all that important to me and if I had a real injury, I have no problem taking off for awhile.
Drink up moho's!!
You read my Chicago report, I am stubborn and sometimes a fool. I keep thinking I can run through injuries when really I need to take some time off.
Mmmmm...beer
I don't push it much at all, I'm not getting paid to do this. I went into a 10k not having run for almost two weeks because I was nursing a piriformis issue. Sure, it hurt my race performance going in stale, but it allowed me to recover without aggravating the injury. There will always be other races.
-Dave
My running blog
Goals | sub-18 5k | sub-3 marathon 2:56:46!!
Labrat
I'm pretty certain I wouldn't run with a broken femur.
I think I'm pretty good about backing off when things hurt more than normal, but I haven't really had much in the way of running injuries
5K 20:23 (Vdot 48.7) 9/9/17
10K 44:06 (Vdot 46.3) 3/11/17
HM 1:33:48 (Vdot 48.6) 11/11/17
FM 4:13:43 (Vdot 35.4) 3/4/18
I'm terrible about taking rest days for potential injuries, but I've never been truly sidelined by one yet. Usually I chalk up any discomfort to being perpetually new to running and having normal aches and pains from getting my legs into shape.
Call me Ray (not Ishmael)
I tried to run a 50 this summer with a broken foot, that I knew was broken. Not the best idea I've ever had, but not the worst either.
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