Quote Originally Posted by smoggy View Post
45 today and almost a year to the day that I've been carrying knee injury (picked up on 3P and finally became unbearable on Rydal Round). I've learnt a lot in last twelve months about how to manage injury, but probably most important of all is to have a positive mind set. Hey, I may not be able to manage races such as 3P, Edale, Borrowdale etc., but I'm still able to walk and cycle in the hills. I've learnt to stop looking back to where I was at a year ago and have started focusing on little steps to full recovery. Did 20 min run in local woods on Thursday and it was sheer joy. My new positive focus seems to be bringing rewards, off to Lakes for walk tomorrow and weather looks really good, also, guess what postman delivered this morning? Fellrunner mag!! On the front cover is pic of runners finishing 3P, what more motivation could I need? Happy injury free running everyone. Hope to see you all at a race sometime soon.
It's almost 3yrs to the month since my knee injury hit me, i've been having Shockwave Therapy sessions every week for the last 5wks as it was thought this treatment would be suitable. The physio says one more session then i'm going to be doing a run on it- first run since february. I've found it very difficult to maintain or even achieve a PMA over the last 3yrs; i've been through 5 physios and heard all sorts of advice from other runners. I've always wanted to be capable of 15m races, but realistically i'd settle for 10m/wk. The physio is very pleased with how ESWT is breaking down the problem but i'm not feeling very confident at all, i'm all doom and gloom with it all but thank f*** you're not because it's a very gloomy place to be. I hope you do end up doing Borrowdale again, i hear it's a god one.