Finally recovered from my injury

Well i guess i got a little sidetracked from blogging this summer! I slacked for sure! I am now free from injury, knock on wood. I had to take 6 weeks off from running which ruined my goal of running my first marathon, Legs for Literacy, Oct 24th, 2010. My injury turned out to be in my ankle not my calf (as i had previously indicated in my last post) and was either a stress fracture or just a stretched/inflamed ligament. It took me forever to get into my doctor and when i finally did it was week 5 of no running and he said that it takes 6 weeks for a stress fracture to heal so i just never went to get the x-ray.

I am currently seeing Brett Leblanc a chiropractor at Optimum Wellness. He is amazing...normally i would go to physio for something like this but i heard rave reviews from all seasoned runners that he is THE man. He is also pretty darn good looking too which made bearing the pain of the evil graston tool that much easier. The graston tool is a metal tool that Brett would run along my ankle smoothing out all scar tissue...holy smokes talk about torture but i am all for pain if it means me healing and running again!

Check out this link for more information.

Brett used the one right above graston on my ankle.

2 weeks ago Brett said the magic words "do you want to try running again". Music to my ears since i biked and water ran for 6 weeks in hopes of finding the elusive runner's high with no luck! Nothing compares. to date i have ran two 5 k's and one 4k. I am still seeing Brett for checkups and will for as long as he wants me too. And guess what i have my runner's high back already. Ha has me slowly increasing the mileage and for now i am destined for the gravol trails and he doesn't trust the pavement yet on my ankle. Slowly but surely i will get back to my previous speeds and stamina.

I plan on trying to get myself ready to do the 10k Legs for Literacy, i am going to ask Brett about it Thursday when i go to see him. My next goal is to run the dreaded Hypothermic half. Last year i hated myself for signing up for it after i had one terrible run in a snow storm the resulted in inches of slush on the roads. That 14k (which was supposed to be 16k) was the worst run of my life. And i actually cried when i got home. My feet were so wet and cold! But i persevered and ended up with a PB (personal best)! Gotta love that.

Alright i promise you all my next post will be soon and i won't leave you for so long.