A while ago (19 May 2014) I wrote in praise of physiotherapists after I pulled the ligament by my inner right knee. I visited a phsyio for guidance on how to recover and instead also gained a diagnosis on changing my running style through stretching different muscles to avoid problems in future.
As I go through the reviews of my memory tags, the story plays out as follows:
21 April 2014: I set out to try running at a half marathon pace of 6 mins/km to see how it felt – and ended up running a half marathon distance (21 km).
23 April 2014: Confident I had it in me to complete a half marathon, I started to think about training for one. But on my run this day, I felt a tear near my right knee and had to walk home with it burning.
25 April 2014: One thing this process of remembering every day that passes bring home, is that episodes pass. To show my believe in this fact, when I saw an early-bird discount for a full marathon next April, I signed up. In the afternoon, I visited the sports shop and looked for a new pair of running shoes. The age of my old ones may have contributed to my injury.
26 April 2014: Instead of running in the park as usual on a Saturday morning, my wife and I went for a walk.
27 April 2014: Today we cycled. My knee could cope with this.
2 May 2014: I bought the new running shoes. But had still not returned to running.
9 May 2014: I visited the physio for advice on whether to rest or to exercise etc. Came away with exercises to help me change my gait. Told not to run for a week.
19 May 2014: Checked out clips on running gait and wrote the post In praise of physiotherapists - part one. The title was in expectation that one day I would write this post.
21 May 2014: Tried a short run. Muscles ached, but knee okay.
22 May 2014: Bought a foam roller to massage muscles.
26 May 2014: Went on a 40 km cycle ride as cross training.
28 May 2014: Started running again. Now doing my exercises each day.
8 June 2014: Ran a 10 km race. Knee fine, but bad approach, going out too fast and struggling at the end.
15 June 2014: Ran another 10 km race. This time, purposely started out slowly and build up the pace for a strong finish, passing many of those who passed me at the beginning in the second half of the race. Feeling back on track and looked for a half marathon to enter.
20 June 2014: Went for a haircut prior to seeing the physio okay to evaluate progress. The barber sneers at the idea of visiting a physio saying he had never met one who knew anything useful. I beg to differ, saying mine had dealt with my injury and the root cause of the problem.
6 July 2014: Ran my first ever half marathon – in just under two hours.
That was 10 weeks from injury to achieving my goal of running a half marathon.
Some of the above milestones along the way come up in each of my reviews.
Life is lived forwards, but understood looking backwards. This story now has a beginning, middle and end.
Now I am in a new chapter: building toward my first marathon in April 2015.
As I go through the reviews of my memory tags, the story plays out as follows:
21 April 2014: I set out to try running at a half marathon pace of 6 mins/km to see how it felt – and ended up running a half marathon distance (21 km).
23 April 2014: Confident I had it in me to complete a half marathon, I started to think about training for one. But on my run this day, I felt a tear near my right knee and had to walk home with it burning.
25 April 2014: One thing this process of remembering every day that passes bring home, is that episodes pass. To show my believe in this fact, when I saw an early-bird discount for a full marathon next April, I signed up. In the afternoon, I visited the sports shop and looked for a new pair of running shoes. The age of my old ones may have contributed to my injury.
26 April 2014: Instead of running in the park as usual on a Saturday morning, my wife and I went for a walk.
27 April 2014: Today we cycled. My knee could cope with this.
2 May 2014: I bought the new running shoes. But had still not returned to running.
9 May 2014: I visited the physio for advice on whether to rest or to exercise etc. Came away with exercises to help me change my gait. Told not to run for a week.
19 May 2014: Checked out clips on running gait and wrote the post In praise of physiotherapists - part one. The title was in expectation that one day I would write this post.
21 May 2014: Tried a short run. Muscles ached, but knee okay.
22 May 2014: Bought a foam roller to massage muscles.
26 May 2014: Went on a 40 km cycle ride as cross training.
28 May 2014: Started running again. Now doing my exercises each day.
8 June 2014: Ran a 10 km race. Knee fine, but bad approach, going out too fast and struggling at the end.
15 June 2014: Ran another 10 km race. This time, purposely started out slowly and build up the pace for a strong finish, passing many of those who passed me at the beginning in the second half of the race. Feeling back on track and looked for a half marathon to enter.
20 June 2014: Went for a haircut prior to seeing the physio okay to evaluate progress. The barber sneers at the idea of visiting a physio saying he had never met one who knew anything useful. I beg to differ, saying mine had dealt with my injury and the root cause of the problem.
6 July 2014: Ran my first ever half marathon – in just under two hours.
That was 10 weeks from injury to achieving my goal of running a half marathon.
Some of the above milestones along the way come up in each of my reviews.
Life is lived forwards, but understood looking backwards. This story now has a beginning, middle and end.
Now I am in a new chapter: building toward my first marathon in April 2015.
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