Tag: recovery

All the articles with the tag "recovery".

• A Year of Return to Running Logs

  31 Jan, 2018

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  Several months ago, I promised that I would share my return to running logs for those interested, not thinking that anyone would actually want to se

• Rewriting the Script

  7 Nov, 2017

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  Someone once asked me what I thought was the one marker of a successful person: I answered with “the ability to pivot.” To adapt on the fly, to cast

• The Injury Commandments

  17 Aug, 2017

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  While it’s not something I’m exactly proud of, if there’s one thing I’ve become well-versed in this past year and a half, it’s been dealing with inj

• I Fear My Own Return

  19 Apr, 2017

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  Fear. I’ve spent the better part of the past year advocating embracing fear – running towards fear, instead of running away from it. That (to butche

• 2016: A Year of Healing

  28 Dec, 2016

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  On April 26th of this year, a few days after the whole “broken femur” thing started, I picked up a copy of Cheryl Strayed’s book “Brave Enough.” I f

• “When Will You Be Back?”

  23 Sep, 2016

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  It has been almost two months since I received the ok to cast the crutches to the curb.Two months since I re-entered the world of bipedalism after t

• Finding Joy in the DNS

  5 Jul, 2016

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  For anyone who has ever signed up for a race via Ultra Signup, you are probably familiar with the most dreaded of features – a listing that displays

• Recovery: On realizing you aren’t superhuman

  2 Jun, 2016

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  It’s been 6 weeks since that fateful run where lightning bolts shot down my leg. When the initial MRI was taken, and my sentence was given (12 weeks

• When it all comes crashing down

  27 Apr, 2016

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  There are times in life when you feel like everything is FINALLY coming together, like life is finally making sense. And you are happy. Really, trul

• On being broken, rehab and recovery

  22 Dec, 2014

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  Before I begin, let me preface that I am not a medical professional and hold no qualifications or certifications (even meaningless ones where you pa

• The Way Back

  15 Feb, 2014

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  It’s been a hibernation kind of winter here in Chicago. And for most of it, I’ve buried my head in the sand. Thrown myself into work (lawyering like

• Injured Reserve

  8 Nov, 2013

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  I hate it when cliches are true: one moment, you feel like you are on top of the world, and the next – things coming crashing down. And you sit and

• The Trouble with R&R

  15 Oct, 2012

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  It’s “Active Recovery Week” here at my Crossfit box, and I am irrationally angry about it. All I want to do is throw heavy shit around. I wake up cr

• Volenti non fit injuria

  13 Jan, 2012

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  To the consenting [willing], no injury is done. In the law, the Latin maxim of “volenti non fit injuria” is typically used as a defense in a tort ac