Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Some thoughts about injuriesI hurt my foot a bit running the street orienteering last weekend. So I've spent a little bit of time thinking about injuries. I've also been thinking about injuries because two (maybe even more?) of the North Americans picked to run the WOC have some sort of injury.Then at lunch today I was poking around the internet and read an article by Johan Ivarsson on the benefits of injury. That's a topic you don't think of very often. Someday I'll get around to translating the article. If you can manage Swedish, you can find the article here. I have a theory that I've benefited from a couple of small injuries or illnesses over the years. In the months before the 1987 WOC, I got sick and missed a couple of week of training. In the months before the 1989 WOC, I bruised a knee when I fell on a rock during a night race. I missed a couple of weeks training. In 1980-something I was hit by a car while riding my bike, badly bruising a leg and forcing me to take a couple of weeks off. In 1991, I ran a bit too much, causing some knee pain and leading to a week or two off from running. In all of those examples, I ran well soon after the injury or illness. My theory is that the injury forced me to get the rest I needed, when rest would do me some good. I didn't think that at the time. I was annoyed to miss training. I felt like I'd built up a reasonable level of fitness and the break was hurting me. But in retrospect, I think the breaks were just what I needed. posted by Michael | 8:14 PM 
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