Starting with advice: if you are hurting, ask a professional for help.
High mileage I put on my body definitely increases chances that I will hurt myself and I am not 18 anymore, so things happen. I already talked about my hip, so I will leave that one alone. But that’s not the only thing that has gone wrong with my body.
All the pounding the pavement, weight lifting, swimming and biking (and let’s admit it: biking for extended periods of time causes back pain) has caused my back to get tight and my neck started to feel tight. I told Diana about it and she decided to deal with that. I am not a fan of massages (I had one in my life and I have no particular desire to repeat that experience) and chiropractors always freaked me out. So here I was: on the gym floor, face down with Diana on my back trying to pop my back. Yeah… that definitely got me to tighten up. It was a battle of her repeating ‘relax’ and me doing the opposite. It even led to this brilliant conversation when my arms went up again as she pushed on my back:
Diana: You are like a dead bug!
Me: Thank you?
She also found a huge knot in my shoulder. I can complain all I want about not enjoying this particular torture, but it helped. I may not be able to completely shut down my instinctual reactions, but I do trust Diana she is helping. She is yet to disappoint. So far, she has fixed pretty much every issue I came to her with.
Another injury: my foot started hurting just before the Philly marathon. I was definitely worried. I started to notice that I put my foot down wrong while walking in softer shoes. I finally went to see a doctor the other day. They took half a dozen of x-rays of my foot and poked it a bit. Credit to the podiatrist: my feet are ridiculously ticklish, yet once I told him that, he managed not to tickle me again, despite holding my foot, examining it and pointing out what was going wrong. Diagnosis: I have an extra bone in my foot and I tweaked it while running. It can be easily fixed with ortho insert in my shoes and I need to use proper stability running shoes. As far as injuries go, that’s a simple fix. Not even a need to take time off my feet! I did get to go to some official meetings in my hiking boots though 😆
I am sure I will tweak something again in the future… Hopefully, it will make for a good story! In the meantime, my body is healing up and I should be ready for Disney World Marathon in a little over 4 weeks!