List all your running injuries and the amount of years you've been running

I've been fortunate: 54 years running, missed less than 30 days due to injury.

I've only had occasional:

Hamstring strains

Quad strains

I do seem to be getting more of these, now that I'm in my 60s. But I still love training and racing. When I get a little ding, I'm careful to back off and not turn a minor injury into a major one.

T-Rex wrote:

Bump thread, Not one for pityparties but this concept is a fact of this sport - as well as any sport.

I would also add that running is a very injury-oriented sport. I have never been injured in any other type of exercise...not even once.

Metatarsal stress fracture

Tibia stress fracture

Plantar facsitiis

Achilles tendonitis

Calf strain

Have had all of these multiple times.

Soleus muscle tear (left leg)

Shin + tibia stress fracture (left leg)

Achilles tendinitis (left leg)

Minor Hip Tear (right leg)

5 years

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31 years

Patellar tendonits

several ankle twists

16 years

I have been pretty lucky but the last 4 years have been rough,though I have set my prs at 1 mile 3k 5k and 5 mile.

Sprained my ankle twice- out about 3 weeks at a time

It band syndrome- out 3months

General runners knee

Off and on plantar fascitis

Currently I'm slowly coming back from a tibial stress fracture that I was out 5 months with

IT band inflammation

upper hamstring tear

groin strain

hamstring issue has persisted for yearrsss

27 yo, and have competed for about 17 of those

30 years

Shin splits

PF

pulled muscle in my butt/glute – out six weeks

mild osteoarthritis in one knee

calf issues, which shut me down from 2 days to a week

some lower back issues, which will also shut me down for up to a week

sprained a few ankles, of course

I feel lucky compared to most

Started running in 1997, freshman year of High School. Had a total of 0 running-related injuries between 1997-2010.

From 2010-2016, I've had more injured months than healthy. Haven't been healthy for more than a few months at a time.

Been running around 35 years, with some other sports mixed in.

It would be hard to compile a complete list of running injuries.

plantar fasciitis

a couple of ankle sprains (from tripping on something)

IT "snapping hip syndrome"

sartorius muscle tear

piriformis syndrome (comes and goes)

neuroma

3x metatarsal stress fractures

cuboid stress fracture

upper hamstring strain (chronic and occasionally rising to the level of taking time off)

flexor hallucis longus tendon rupture

calf muscle tear

lower back strain

I'm still racing.

More importantly, how many of these are self-diagnosed?

The beat goes on wrote:

I'll start

meniscus tear

ankle sprain

achilles tendonitis

soleus strain

ankle sprain/talus fracture

morons neuroma/stress fracture

hamstring strain

quadriceps strain

I hope that's it. Four years. I started late in life.

hypos wrote:

More importantly, how many of these are self-diagnosed?

The beat goes on wrote:

I'll start

meniscus tear

ankle sprain

achilles tendonitis

soleus strain

ankle sprain/talus fracture

morons neuroma/stress fracture

hamstring strain

quadriceps strain

I hope that's it. Four years. I started late in life.

Probably just the morons neuroma.

7 years now, started in High school. Was healthy in HS, never hurt. These are just from the last 3ish years of college.

Runners Knee (right)

Stress Fracture 3rd metatarsal (ran through it)

Painful Shin Splints

Internal Hip rotator strain (left)

Torn Quad (left)

ITBS (left)

College running will injure almost anyone.

38 years-since XC season 1977.

ITBS

Runners Knee

Sprained ankle-4 or 5 times

Femoral Neck Stress Fracture

Blisters-scores of blisters, always at the most inopportune time.

Sciatica

Currently a chronic sufferer of dickdo disease. My beer gut sticks out as far as my dickdo. Tends to slow a guy down.

hypos wrote:

More importantly, how many of these are self-diagnosed?

The beat goes on wrote:

I'll start

meniscus tear

ankle sprain

achilles tendonitis

soleus strain

ankle sprain/talus fracture

morons neuroma/stress fracture

hamstring strain

quadriceps strain

I hope that's it. Four years. I started late in life.

In my case, all of them. The meniscus might have been ACL but was the longest off from running. Took months to heal with zero running. The talus fracture could have been any fracture from the pothole type injury. I've had really bad sprains and ligament dislocations in the ankle but this one was very different, especially in sound, initial and exrutiating pain and relatively quick recovery.

Seven years, and darn it if I haven't had

- TWO major labral tears, with successful (if arduous) repairs. BTW heartily recommend the repair if you are diagnosed - PT did nothing for me. Surgery was basically a miracle.

- Hamstring strain (pretty mild - ran through it)

- Also two bouts with runner's knee

- And a femoral stress fracture that went undiagnosed for over 6 months. I ran my 10k PR on it. Hurt like the dickens.

Wow--undiagnosed for SIX months AND a PR on it.

This thread gets more and more interesting.