In my last post I talked about how I tried to deal with the
uncertainty of coming back from injury, the things I had learnt from my injury and
how I planned to get back into marathon training after missing out on London
2016. I don’t want to get too bogged down in how to recover from injury, that’s
more for your osteopath/ physio to deal with. I am more concerned with how to
follow a marathon plan, whilst you are still getting back from your particular
injury. These are the top 10 things that I have learnt from trying to train
whilst still coming back from an injury:
1) Don’t be afraid to step back and ask
yourself why you are training for a particular type of sporting event. It may
not sound very helpful as the first bit of advice when coming back from injury,
but it’s definitely something that allows you assess what you can and can’t do.
What I mean by this, is that if you have had a serious injury then you may not be able to train like you used to.
When I was trying to recover from my calf
injury I took up a lot of swimming and considered doing a few swimming
events in the Summer, because I was worried I still wouldn’t be able to run by
then. Therefore it’s worth looking at what other type of sporting events you
can get into if you can’t train like you used to.
In my opinion the main aim of recovery is to get over your injury and
stay fit; stepping back and reassessing what you can do is one of the first
ways of doing that.
