ON INJURY

While INJURY is to be AVOIDED at all cost,

sometimes it is just INEVITABLE.

Some say if one hasn't gotten any injury before,

obviously he was not pushing that hard, or he

is just a jogger who happens to think that he is a runner.


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When an injury pops in, it is usually

not that serious, most of the time it can be treated

with a short period of rest(few days, few weeks).


It is that 'running through the pain', 'tough it out' behaviour during

injury that make things MUCH WORST and much DIFFICULT to deal with later on.


I admit that you do need a fair amount of discretion to distinguish

between an injury and a normal muscle DOMS, etc (and this usually

have to be learnt the HARD way, unfortunately).


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But when an injury is ASCERTAINED, it is time to ACCEPT it.

ACCEPT the fact that you are injured and can't run for a while

can be difficult to some runners. These runner always fall prey

to the DENIAL stage of injury. They alway run though the pain,

even to the extend that the gait is affected. Of cource, they

also deny their chance of recovering soon. The vocabulary

of ACCEPTANCE can be a foreign language to some runnners.



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ACCEPT that during an injury, the BEST thing to do is to

REST and RECOVER.


Think of it as YOUR BODY's way of TELLING YOU that YOU have been

training REAL HARD, and now it is HARVEST time!

Just sit back and rest.

Now it is the tome to REAP the benefit of all the previous hard training.

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WAIT PATIENTLY AND A STRONGER, BETTER YOU WILL EMERGE.


NEVER rush the recovery, you can have all the perfect plan, but your body

may think otherwise.


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Think "BODY OVER MIND"; let your BODY dictates HOW LONG it will take to recover

and not your 'tough mind' does all the calculation.

I always think that a sound mind begins from a sound body; a fit and healthy

body nourishes a steel mind.


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Crank on.