Today marked the five week countdown to the Nike Women's Marathon! I have been having an IT Band flare up and am taking it a little easy on the running this week. Biking, pool running, yoga and PT exercises this week will hopefully get me back into fighting shape quickly. Injuries are common when training for an endurance event so I am just trying to do my best to not make it worse and get back to training quickly.
I am hoping to PR at this marathon and I know that resting for a few days will be better than pushing through pain and injuring myself more. I want to make this my defining race and I am ready to put in all the necessary training, even when that calls for rest.
What do you do when an injury strikes? Do you push through or pull back?
HEY THAT'S ME!!!!! I'm so excited!! Don't worry, I'll pass the book around when I'm finished w/ me so we can all read it ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you Karen!!
When I swam and started getting rotator pain I would pull back by just kicking instead of full swimming. You got this. You have the miles put in and you'll do great.
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