A Game of Cat and Mouse

Again I find myself with a mild niggle; some sort of pain in the right hand side of my lower back. It's a bittersweet moment as I am glad that I have recognised the problem as soon as it started, but irritated that I find myself once again not being able to run for a few days. The irony of this current issue is that I think it was caused by doing my rehab exercises too many times, whilst I was still too tired from the previous day's training.

The main thing I am aware is that I do not want this to start becoming a mental problem as well. From my previous experience of injury I find it is quite easy to start slipping into a pattern of thinking that my running will always be like this; essentially projecting into the future without seeing any positive change. Already thoughts like: "Is this what it's going to be like for all my running for the future?" or "I am just going to have to accept that I will always be injured" are bouncing around my head. It's a tricky process as there is no point in trying to silence those fears, they will always pop up every now and again. Though I don't always have to listen to them and can recognise that they don't have to dominate everything I do in my running. In any case the most important thing for me is to be patient in the process of recovering.