Being injured sucks. I just want to run.

What is your injury?

almost 42. shit changes when you get older. sucks. cannot stand injuries... it takes SO LONG to come back.

honestly healthy for the first time in 3 years. i've done plenty of running in that period, but no where near expected, and constantly with pain and fear of more serious injury.

hitting the weight room religiously is the only thing that has really helped. 2-3 times weekly, focusing on hips, hamstrings, quads, eccentric (weighted) lower leg stuff, core....

and, man so i despise the gym... but my love of running is so high that its worth it.

you probably already have a plan and all... so maybe i should just say... i get it dude, and sorry for your injury.

you'll be back at it...

Current injury is a broken bone after falling like an idiot. It almost makes it more frustrating that this injury was a flat out accident.

I hear ya on the gym thing. After my surgery I became a gym rat and maintained a strength routine thereafter in recognition of my not being a kid anymore. I was doing all the "right" things an older runner is supposed to do, then I fall like a moron and am injured again.

Every time I see a jogger my heart aches, wishing I could do that.

Sorry to hear about your injury. I’ve had a few myself and must say the mental anguish of injury was always worse than the injury itself. Hang in there. You’ll be back.