Desi Davilla has withdrawn from the 2013 Boston Marathon due to a slow-healing femoral stress fracture of the right leg. Just when she seemed poised for a real breakout it seems like everything is going against her.
Desi Davilla has withdrawn from the 2013 Boston Marathon due to a slow-healing femoral stress fracture of the right leg. Just when she seemed poised for a real breakout it seems like everything is going against her.
That's tough for her. I hope she can come back strong after finally giving her injury a chance to heal, however long it takes.
Tales of the high mileage runner. Sooner or later you get injured. Stay low and on the 'crete people.
Low mileage crete runner wrote:
Tales of the high mileage runner. Sooner or later you get injured. Stay low and on the 'crete people.
There is a lot of truth to what you said; however, there are lots of runners who have had success with high mileage, such as Paula Radcliff and McDougal at the college level for example. With that said, it seems like for the high mileage types, when it comes time to pay the piper, the payment is asked for in full.
You have to be in it before you can be out of it.
Femoral stress fracture equals heel striking plus too much pavement.
Meanwhile, microtrolls start another thread on how Alberto only knows how to get exemptions for "asthma meds".
You can't say that her foot strike and crete caused her injuries. I don't run on crete and I land on my toes and I've had stress fractures in femur and lots of other places. Plus 90 percent of her training is off road on dirt trails. She is injured because the Hanson's push way to hard. They don't give their athletes time to recover. If she would have stopped the moment she felt pain, she would likely be back running full strength before the olympic marathon. Not paying attention to her body combined with Hansons pushing here when she was injured is what caused the injury to blow up.
Those Brooks flimsy T-7 racing shoes on the HARD concrete roads in Houston sure didn't help. That may have been the start of her troubles. But, I wish her well and that she can come back 100%. She is one heck of a talent.
slow down a minute wrote:
She is injured because the Hanson's push way to hard. They don't give their athletes time to recover.
That is just a flat out lie.
PreRunner wrote:
Those Brooks flimsy T-7 racing shoes on the HARD concrete roads in Houston sure didn't help. That may have been the start of her troubles. But, I wish her well and that she can come back 100%. She is one heck of a talent.
agree 100%
I've made that mistake too