Ok....I am panicing!!!!It's exactly 2 weeks until the Georgia Marathon and it is status quo with this leg issue. Of all the running injuries that I have faced, the Adductor muscle strain is the one that has stopped me dead in my tracks. It is day 7 of non-running and it is just as tender/sore as last Saturday after I attempted to run.
I solicited advice from fellow runners on how to handle this injury and the best way gut it out when I run the marathon in two weeks. The best advice I got was...
'Don't run at all between now and the 30th of March and if you can handle the pain of the first few miles which will feel like someone stabbed a knife into your hip. You should be alright until AFTER the marathon. The next few days , you will feel miserable. ''
The common answer on how to treat this injury was to give it complete rest by not running for 6 weeks.
Yeah right!! Like that is going to happen....
Come hell or high water, I am going to run on the 30th! There is too much invested to turn back now. I know that sounds stupid, but we will see...
I will leave you with these great quotes...
"Scientific testing can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'"---Gelindo Bordin
"There is no time to think about how much I hurt; there is only time to run." --Ben Logsdon
"Pain is weakness leaving the body." -- Tom Sobal
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