Injurosis

Injurosis … neuroses about niggles and twinges after an injury.

When it’s dark … and you can’t see anything … your mind overthinks … injurosis is inevitable.

Is the niggle the injury waiting to flare up? or is it the body awakening and grumbling about the new level of activity? Neurosis of every twinge, niggle, ache and tingle is in full over analysis mode! Is that another injury? is that the existing niggle or a new one? Why are you doing this to me? I just want to RUN!!!

Muted colours, muted mood as I set out walking at dawn, pitch black with only the restricted illumination of a headtorch beam on the way home, reflecting my internal feelings. Patience is not my best trait, in fact it is practically non-existent. So I’m trying my hardest to be patient. Patient … it is no coincidence that when you are a ‘patient’, with an injury or illness, that you have to be ‘patient’ with your body to repair itself. But that is what I need to be. A week off running to rest my backside for a while, to let the piriformis relax so that the aggravated sciatica can sort itself out.

Apparently I have a lazy ass which means I’m currently running like a wonky donkey, There’s not many people that would get away with telling me that, although Philippa was much politer and totally professional in her phraseology and explanation.

Basically the sciatica means I’ve been over compensating. One side is flexible whilst the other is as tight as a Yorkshire man’s purse strings. My form is all scrunched and my glutes are lazy! Office work and driving mean even more scrunch for extended periods of time. So basically I’m lumbering along like Quasimodo.

The answer … first off to stop panicking, stop over-reacting, be patient and listen to the warning signs. Then to do stretching, stretching and more stretching, foam rolling and glute strengthening, stretching and more stretching. Oh and some stretching and foam rolling and strengthening, Did I say stretching? Accept that I am no spring chicken, my body does not appreciate just getting up and running, it needs warming up, easing into the run and then gently recovering.

Not running has been doing my head in though. Sleep has suffered. And frustration levels are high, although I’m trying my hardest to hide it. Training was going so well before this new injury flared up. So I’m doing as I’m told, albeit begrudgingly. I want rid so that training can carry on hopefully where I left off. Oh and in a week I can get back to running, even if it is slow and involves walking, I can run! Which is a huge relief!

Training can resume with regular MOT’s to keep these legs moving …