for a long period of time?
I'm talking about serious stuff here, like a hip or tibia.
lets see how truely bad ass Letsrunners are.
for a long period of time?
I'm talking about serious stuff here, like a hip or tibia.
lets see how truely bad ass Letsrunners are.
Coaches/trainers wouldn't let me.
Don't mess around with it.... It takes 6 weeks of no running to heal a stress fracture.. Also, be careful of any weight bearing cross training... I have a friend who recently tried training thru a stress fracture and wound up breaking her foot clean thru in 2 places.. It could be months before she can resume regular training again...
please. My hip had hairlines in 2 places, and it hurt so badly, but I finished the season with PRs in the 1500m and 5000m. I was out for a month afterwards, and in the pool for another month, but I think it made me tougher.
I guess I didn't really know it was a stress fracture at the time, but I ran on a stress fracture in the neck of my femur for about a month or a little more. Race and worked out- was sorta running on one leg, dragging the other, but thought I had a sore hip-flexor and just kept going. Finally found out (MRI) about the fracture and the Docs told me that if it had been slightly worse, in a slightly different location, or if I had kept running on it, I would probably have had to have surgery and screws put in and all kinds of crap. Running on that type of injury is a bad idea- don't do it or it could end your running. I was out for 3 months with no running and no cross training allowed.
I don't know when it was first broken, but my tibia hurt for at least 3 years (although those were my best running years despite hurting). It never hurt when I ran, only when I pressed on the area, so I ignored it. Then I finally got an MRI confirming it was a fracture. That pretty much finished me off since it was never able to heal properly these past 2 years (chronic stress reaction). But to answer your question, yes, I did run with a stress fracture, but it was the BIGGEST MISTAKE of my life.
On a side note, my tibia stopped hurting this summer when I switched to flats, but I got too eager with mileage and fractured my foot. I'm just happy it's not my shin.
yes, in high school, toward the end of the season in track. my coaches tried to tell me that it was 'all in my head'. i ran League, Regional and State as my foot got more painful each week (with barely any training during the week). It broke open at State and I had to limp off...I showed up at school Monday with a cast on my foot, on crutches. I guess it wasn't in my head, coach.
Had a light tibial stress fracture at a time I was doing 100+ mile weeks. I managed to cut mileage to 40 for a few weeks then tack on 10 or so per week till I was through it. I also slowed my pace and was very careful about my foot strike.
There are varying levels of stress fracture. If mine had been much worse I may not have run through it.
been there, done that.... wrote:
yes, in high school, toward the end of the season in track. my coaches tried to tell me that it was 'all in my head'. i ran League, Regional and State as my foot got more painful each week (with barely any training during the week). It broke open at State and I had to limp off...I showed up at school Monday with a cast on my foot, on crutches. I guess it wasn't in my head, coach.
Was your coach's name coach Dumbass by any chance?
Oops, I guess you already answered that.
a girl on our team was diagnosed with a stress fracture, but decided to continue running anyway for XC conference. i will never forget standing right there on the hill and hearing the loud "crack" of her shin bone breaking in half. it was literally poking through the skin. one of the trainers puked- kind of funny later. obviously, she had to have surgery (this was her sophmore year) and had to lay off running for almost a full year. she wasn't even close to the same runner her junior year in track when she was able to run again. so, she joined the swimming team the next fall(since she was in the pool cross training for almost a year) and ened up all state in swimming her senior year. went to the university of texas on a swimming scholarship. the point is, you're an idiot if you try and run on a stress fracture. it will either:
1.) break all the way through
2.) take forever to eal whre your performance will be hampered anyway
3.) take forever to heal and also heal poorly
4.) cause you lifelong chronic pain
tried it once. didn't realize it was a SF at the time, it was my first real injury. made it through conference until I couldn't oven walk on it anymore. that cost me most of my indoor season and it cause permanent bone damage that still bothers me today. unless you intend the upcoming races to be the high point of your running career, save it.
I cut a cast of my right foot with a kitchen knife in high school to run the league final cross country meet. I had a metatarsal stress fracture at the time. I finished the race, but it wasn't the greatest experience.
had a buddy who ran on a broken tibia until it healed. hes completely nuts though. never met a guy with more pain tolerance in my life
Running a ten miler on August 3rd of this year, my foot literally just felt like it cracked around mile 6. That it was actually fractured was the last thing on my mind so I barely finished the run (horrible pain). Two days off and the pain started to diminish so I tried to run again...horrible pain.
After a week and a half of trying to run I finally got an x-ray....sf's on the 2nd and 3rd metatarsals.
Hit the pool up right away and started running again in early September, I've now been running pretty full volume for 3ish weeks. No pain.
Cross my junior year in HS, I started having pain in my right foot when I was warming up the two weeks before conference, but that was it. A few weeks later it hurt warming up and on distance days, but not quality days.
Finally, the week of the state meet when it was just me still training -- my team hadn't made it -- I said something to the trainer, who sent me to the doctor. She said nothing showed up on x-ray, but it was probably a stress fracture, but also probably wouldn't actually fully break in less than a week. So I finished the season with it, got a bone scan and whaddya know? Stress fracture in the third metatarsul.
Man, few things were as joyous as getting to take off that stupid walking boot.
i didn't realize it, but i ran through awful foot pain for three months...for about two of those months I couldn't walk without a limp, and by the end, I could barely walk at all, but i was still trying to run, and doing 70+ miles a week (i'm a girl)...i finally got it diagnosed as a navicular sf, but i'd completely fractured it and it required surgery and i haven't run in 15 weeks, and I have 5 more to go before i can even start...don't be as stupid as i was!