Running Tweaks
Make a tweak. Bend some part of your life outside of the ordinary and see what results. Try something (anything!) new. Do a perpetually routine task in a new and unique way. The past 7 weeks I have been suffering from what I would term a severe ankle injury. By severe I mean that it hindered me even as I walked about on a daily basis. I injured the ankle as I was running one morning approximately 7 weeks ago, and I have not been able to get it to heal properly since that time. I tried running on it after every 10 days of rest to see if it had gotten any better and each time it went right back to its initial injured state.
I have worn the same pair of work shoes to my current job every day since that injury. Recently, it was suggested to me by my caring (and by caring I also mean extremely wise) wife, who called upon me (and by called upon I mean forced me) to change my work shoes. Thus, I wore a different pair of shoes to the office for 2 straight days, and by the third day the pain in my “injured” ankle was gone, and that very same day I was able to run again. Incredible you may say. I said the same thing! The injury was more a result of me doing the same thing every day than it was from me doing that initial injurious event. I spent 7 weeks of my life not doing what I love because I was unwilling to try something new (and by unwilling I mostly mean unable to think differently). In short, if something is not going as planned, make a tweak. Try something different. Think of a new way of doing something that you routinely do the same way every single day. See what a difference a slight alteration can make and then start running again. Start running again.
