They say you never regret a run!?!
I was just thinking about that 🤔 as I decided it wasn’t the right call to run tonight. I’m a little limpy tonight and another day off is better than a regression in the come back.
Anyhaps, back to never regretting a run 💭 I was going to share this picture and dive into the fact that I did indeed regret this run. This run put me out for 7 weeks 🙈 this run caused me a lot of pain 😳 this run took away my solace and I wanted to talk about regretting it. I ran, I was a bit limpy, at 4.5 miles it was starting to be a bit uncomfortable but I was nearly home, right?!? It was 10km.
I finished ✔️
We travelled home.
I couldn’t get out the car 🚗 my legs didn’t work. I was in agony. I’ve ran 100km and got out of the car able to get myself in the house. I ran 10km and I could not.
7 long weeks of limping to being back at around 4 short and very slow runs a week.
Do I really regret that run?
Everything inside me initially shouted YES, yes you do!! If you hadn’t run you wouldn’t have had those 7 weeks, that pain and literally everything being a struggle, you wouldn’t have gained weight from not training but still needing the calories to heal. You wouldn’t feel so slow & ineffective right now.
But the truth is that that run made me stop. The underlying niggle was there. The likelihood is that I’d have continued running on it and ultimately I could have ended up with an even bigger injury.
So, the reality is that whilst it probably wasn’t a bobby dazzler of an idea there’s no point in having regrets. I did what I might have needed it to do at that time.
I’ll return.
I’ll be back to being me soon.
