Hello!
I think first it was shin splints. Then there was a bursitis thing. And a bit of tendonitis. Then a stress fracture just before a half marathon. Then a calf strain, perhaps. A bit later there was a weird ankle thing, then calf strain followed by calf strain followed by calf strain. A slipped disc. Another stress fracture. A full-on pavement smackdown. An ongoing hip thing. Another stress fracture. An achilles thing. That might be all of them, but it probably isn’t. The thing about injuries is that in writing them down, they sound painful, don’t they? But the thing I remember when I look at my list is not the pain, but the associated and very real depression that accompanied each and every one of them. When I think back…