A year!? I tore my patella tendon in 2017, what my physio described as

"an impressively proper knee injury" and that was all cleared up in well under a year.

Actually, counterintuitively, that injury was one of the best things to happen to my running - it forced me to adapt my gait to a mid-foot strike, because any hint of a heel-strike was f**king agony, and since then my running form has been much better. I've had lifetime bests at 5k, half marathon and marathon since that injury.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on January 28th 2019 at 11:50:22

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PM: Smugrunners - Trail Shoes (General Chat) - Bungle, Jan 28, 09:57:13
- ^ thinly veiled works for ‘Trail Shoes’ post (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Jan 28, 19:16:30
- Inov8... nice (n/m) (General Chat) - Worthing Yellow, Jan 28, 12:25:06
  - £££ though. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 28, 12:43:01
- I've tried to take up running again (General Chat) - Charles21, Jan 28, 10:30:03
  - You're either wearing the wrong shoes or doing it wrong. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 28, 11:02:26
  - Slower and make sure you have good cushioned shoes. (General Chat) - Bungle, Jan 28, 10:50:33
    - Cheers, was in pain for about 3 days after the first run (General Chat) - Charles21, Jan 28, 10:56:09
      - Sportslink in Taverham is the best place to go. (General Chat) - Bungle, Jan 28, 10:58:48
        
        thanks Bungles (General Chat) - Charles21, Jan 28, 11:04:32
        
        Runners Need have a dozen or more places in that London. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 28, 11:25:20
        
        thanks, found one nearby, gonna gait test the hell out of them (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Jan 28, 12:11:14
        
        I had it done at one of those (just up the hill from Kings Cross, towards Angel) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 28, 11:39:52
        
        That's fitness without conditioning, that. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 28, 11:43:39
        
        Oh, it did. That 'feedback' hung around for almost a year, long after I stopped running (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 28, 11:46:07
        
        A year!? I tore my patella tendon in 2017, what my physio described as (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 28, 11:50:22
        
        yup, just a nagging slight pain in my knee (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 28, 11:54:44
- what you need is a pair of DMS Boots (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Jan 28, 10:16:51
  - The only thing that unites us... (General Chat) - Bungle, Jan 28, 10:51:29

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