Tell Me Your Comeback Story

Training Advice/Discussion Marathon

8 years ago 07/07/2015 2:46pm EDT

Just cross training in July with 0 running. Plan in August and September is to continue to cross train and gradually increase running mileage. Then in October start a focused build toward CIM in the hopes of an OTQ time. Is this delusional? Tell me your comeback story where you overcame far greater obstacles.

Background: injuries are a really pissed off piriformis thanks to a very strained Achilles on left side and tendonitis on of the peroneal tendon on the right side. My marathon PR leaves me three minutes shy of an OTQ time. I am not a lifelong runner with thousands of miles under my belt. Just started running competitively 3 years ago and am 38.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 3:33pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

Sorry, but if you want my comeback you'll have to scrape it off your mom's teeth.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 3:40pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

I was close to voting for Obama a second time, but my friends talked me off the ledge. I learned that voting for the Left is bad news. That's quite a comeback for me.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 3:46pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

I ran a marathon on track, was lapped, but came back to win.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 3:59pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

Torn hamstring. 6 months without training.

First race back I ran a 19 minute road 5k in September the next April I ran 2:00 in the 800 only 1 second off my PR.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 4:35pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

I had a partial tear in my meniscus my first year of running so couldn't run much that summer, then was a stupid female runner for like 3 months of the summer engaging in an eating disorder (have since then changed my mind and habits am and much healthier) but the damange was done and not long after XC season (PR'd 2 minutes for 6k that season), I crashed hard. Had overtraining sypmtoms, couldn't sleep. Went from 6:50's being easy to 8:00's being hard. Sat out track. Then last year I was anemiac---somehow still managed to run in the 4:40's for 1500 meter and 17:25 5k by myself on the track (not even a race) which were huge PR's for me.

So I have had two comebacks depsite a screwed up knee, an eating disorder leading to overtraining and chronic fatigue, and anemia because I run like 80 miles a week...

....and I am well on my way to still improving.

I am 21 (female) and have only been running 2.5 years.

You will be fine.

Good luck!

8 years ago 07/07/2015 4:38pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

I'm a thread that was deleted, but after an uproar in the lrc community I came back.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 4:48pm EDT

re: the annoyed as pie thread

Hurt off and on last 2.5 years of college and didn't really run for a year or so after. Didn't think I would run competitively again so I drank, went to bars, put on weight, and hooked up with girls. After a while of this my injuries didn't hurt and it was no longer painful to run. Ran a 4:41 mile after a month of running and then 8 months later ran a 4:13 mile and a couple weeks later a 1:08 half. Currently training for an OTQ first in San Jose half and then CIM.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 5:35pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

I got smashed by a truck and about 2 years later ran a 4:00 1500. Not a PR but a comeback none the less.

8 years ago 07/07/2015 5:48pm EDT

re: Need A Comeback

Never broke 15 for 5K therefore get no respect on LRC. Nevertheless have had numerous comebacks over decades of running.

Ran 15:28, 32:50, and 2:34 marathon within a month, coming off a bad intestinal illness. Got hurt. Missed a year of training and swore off marathons.

Two years later ran 15:13, PR.

A few years later moved to a better part of the country for fast racing and ran PRs at every distance from 4 mile to 10 mile.

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