Hungry Without Injury
As a runner, injuries are part of the game and almost every runner has experienced an injury that kept them out for a race, a season or a year. Some runners never fully recover from an injury. Unfortunately, I have not been hindered by a major injury. Bear with me. My running career, until last year, has seen continuous improvement. Many successes and many failures also. Good races and bad, just like everyone else. I have had set backs and periods of burning out, over training and slumps. But my set backs were never because of an injury. Usually I would have a body chemistry problem like iron or Mono or some other fatigue mystery. Its crazy for me to say I wish I could have injuries. There are people reading this who have had nothing but injuries and think I am a jerk and that I “don’t know how good I have it”. Runners plagued by injury say “if I was only healthy at this point or in that season, there is no telling how fast I could have ran”. And this is my point. That imagination of possibility is what makes runners so good; the idea that forces beyond their control are holding them back. They yearn for solid consistent training to reach their potential. I say occasional injuries make runners better. You don’t take each run for granted but instead come back with fire and passion that stewed when you were sidelined. You realize the urgency of a day’s training because you never know when it can be taken from you again. While I don’t explicitly wish to be injured, I do ponder how much more intensity I would gain after coming off a forced break from running where 95% of my body was great but just one part was holding me back and suddenly it’s not. Full speed ahead. It’s easy to make these claims from my point of view but everyone has setbacks one way or another
I bring this up because half our team is dealing with injuries. I see their discouragement but also their fortitude to cross train or rehab or just to stay positive. I know they are chomping at the bit and would kill to be out there running with me instead of spending a couple hours in the pool staring at a clock. It is inspiring to see. Observing people with injuries may be the closest I want to get to the experience of not being able to run. This hunger is hard to capture if you have never had an unplanned absence from the sport. Regardless, runners do whatever they can to run well, particularly those who’ve had it taken away. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Cinderella said that. The eighties hair band, of course. Not the housekeeper chick that talked to mice.
9 comments to "Hungry Without Injury"
It is a sad day when a runner has an injury that prevents them from doing the one thing that they truly love. When I initially started running in high school, I cracked my thigh bone from overtraining. Having to use crutches and watch my team run without me, was the most devastating thing that had ever happened at that point in my life. But...from the moment I healed up...I never stopped running. Even if it was a mile or two, I never stopped running. Having an injury and bouncing back from it, makes you get on your knees and thank the Lord. Those of us that love to run, I mean, really love to run...has a heartbreak everytime they can not run. When their body is the reason for them not to run, your heart breaks even more...as if that is possible. The closest thing to describe the feeling of not being able to run is a heartbreak. Those of us that had injuries will agree, I'm sure. God bless you for not having injuries at this point, because that is just one more day that you get to run! Be thankful for it and I pray that observing is the closest that you get to injury. Keep smiling! Keep running!
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