Have you ever been
injured because of running? How?
Yes!! I have and they suck because they can
bring setbacks to your training.
In May 2012 at the Mother's Day 10km I got planters fasciitis.
Literally it came a week after Nike Women contact me about being a Nike Women’s
ambassador. Lucky for me I found an amazing chiro and he really helped heal me.
He taught me that injuries come from an imbalance in the body.
You might think you just have an injury in
your foot but it is actually stemming from somewhere else in your body, like
your calves, knees and hips.
He was the one who got me into rolling out
almost nightly. Sometimes I am not the best at it, but I try to stay on top of
rolling my muscles out. I know it is important to give my muscles love since I
put them through so much on a daily basis.
My chiro took me off running for almost two
weeks and did therapy on me, lucky for me I have only had one flare up
since I had planters fasciitis. I was able
to fix it by stretching and rolling out. It is always a worry in the back of my head that it is going to come back with a vengeance. I try to switch my shoes. I never run on the same pair of shoes two days in a row.
My second injury came in December it was my
knee. This one worried me a lot since my knee cap was coming off of my knee, it was being pushed up by the muscles. It
was really gross looking. I was over working muscles and they were pulling on
my knee in a weird direction. I learned the importance of cross training with
this injury. Though running is fun you have to lift weights to balance out your
muscles. I also learned that getting to fast too soon can cause injury. Overdoing it on the intervals can have a negative effect.
Each of my injuries have been pretty minor but
they have taught me important lessons of stretching and rolling out and of
cross training and weight lifting.
My biggest fear is that I will get an injury
that will take me out of running but as long as I stay on top of my body and
listen that shouldn't happen.
What is your worst injury? What do you do to counteract
it from coming back?
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