 All right, let's get it going here. We go good morning YouTube family. We are live here in the studio say hello to the Facebook family. That's right. We're watching live here the London Marathon and it's going down and basically everybody watching this will be the first clip in Tomorrow's vlog. So this is how we do it here in the studio. All right back to business. See you on the flip side It is officially 12 hours later since that last clip I'm now eating an early dinner because you better believe I'm going to bed as early as possible tonight So we're gonna get out in the studio talk about injuries talk about how I Really strive to thrive in injury situations So anyway, but right now I'm eating dinner and all is so good if I look a little tired Sound a little stuffed up. It's just because the London Marathon took it out of me this morning But that was so fun. Oh my goodness. If you haven't seen my breakdown of the London Marathon results Go check it out upper right hand corner. Oh, it was so exciting. Well, you probably already know who won But I won't tell you right now I'm just one second. Oh, yeah, here we go back in the studio. Good to be back It's still a little not quite back to normal from this morning's live stream Got to move the computer back inside, but it was a good time here. What a day it has been I did manage to squeeze in a 90 minute Bike ride on the stationery bike at the gym. So I feel good about that Trying to thrive through this injury, right? That is the topic for today's vlog We're gonna break that down in a minute, but yesterday. I actually walked everybody through all Every single injury I've had in the last 20 years. So you see them on your screen right now It's been quite a it's been a lot. It looks like a lot, but it's actually a lot of repeat injuries and Yeah, we talked about patterns and injuries yesterday So anyway, that was good to break that down for all of you just so you can kind of see what I've had to deal with basically if I did if a rough number is 20 injuries in 20 years for me and when I go by injury I mean something that takes me out of running so that I it's just too painful to run like a little pain or ache I don't quite count, but yeah, if it just takes me out from running that is a running injury for me And now I want to break down five steps for Thriving that's right Not just surviving but thriving through a running injury and this will be different how you approach this it depends on where you are at in life where you are at in a training cycle where you are at in You know, maybe you're maybe you're just training for your first 5k. This might not quite apply apply to you Maybe you're training for a two-mile state championship. This might apply to you Like there's just different levels of competition out there But I would argue even if you're at let's say a beginner level and you get injured you can still take bits and pieces of what I'm about to share and apply them to your Mindset to your demeanor to your inner will as you're pushing through your particular injury and I'm sure I'm sure that these Ideas are not gonna be a shocker to you if you just pause and think I bet a lot of you when you're injured You already do this You just don't even know it or you've never put a name to it and also one last point I bet these have already been written down in a book somewhere I've never read that book but these are just points that I have come up with over the years for how I deal with a Running injury and how I try as best I can and I'm not saying I'm perfect But as best I can to thrive when I can't go out and pound the pavement one week ago from today when you're watching this I was doing my last workout the threshold run in Wash Park that run wrapped up and my foot was feeling a little funny And that's what I knew, huh? So I try I just was you know massaging stretching in the car And I said okay I'll just try and jog a little cool down and nope I came right back to the car and I knew something was not right So what did I do? I sat in the car for about 10 minutes And I just kind of poked just a little bit around my foot not hard just poked a little bit to try and pinpoint what is going on in my mind and then Basic okay, so I then I went on a mini family vacation and during that family vacation I was trying as best I could to be present to the family But I'll tell you this step number one, and I know this is kind of a dramatic term, but I was mourning I was in a little bit of mourning like okay, and basically so here's my rule of thumb. I give myself I Like to keep it under I know it's crazy But like under 18 hours so a day and a half and sometimes even under 12 hours of quote unquote I know it's dramatic, but mourning where I have to really go into a kind of a difficult place and say I Might not be able to tow the line in Cleveland I might not be able to run my peak race all of this training all of these vertical feet all of these threshold runs Might not be able to now there it's long term aerobic development like it's good for the big bank long term But short term I might not be able to withdraw that aerobic deposit from the bank So anyway, that's step one morning I give myself and I force myself to really Think and it's okay to be sad. It's okay to and again. I know that's a straw I gotta think of a better one. No, I'm no I'm sticking with it morning It's like because that's what it is for me Like I love the sport so much and I'm sure many of you do as well I know you do actually based on your comments down in the down in the comments section. So anyway, that is step one Morning, okay step two. This is this is a fun one. This is better than step one I immediately after step one is over. So after I've grieved a little bit and just processed That's a good word processed the situation and be like, uh That really sticks and maybe I use some stronger language in the moment, but like, okay This is the reality I have to deal with so step two I immediately after I feel like I've processed and put it behind me and I try to keep it pretty quick I must say now some you know, it might take a little longer for you. That's okay but then I go into injecting hope immediately into the situation so I'll just say real quick a book arrived yesterday in the mail a book written by Ryan Hall Thank you to Joey shout out to Joey so that book by Ryan Hall I bet it is going to have some pretty good Nug gold nuggets of hope for dealing with running injuries I know because Ryan dealt with a lot of running injuries in his career But here's how I found hope as I was studying so just last week as I was studying up for the London Marathon I was looking at the starting list and guess what I was beginning to dig into the Biographies of some of these guys and ladies towing the line at the London Marathon and there were a lot There were quite a few runners in that 25 to 28 age range and then Everybody there was even more runners in the 34 I'll just I think the highest I saw was 38 maybe 37 38 It was like a 34 to 38 age range and it gave me so much hope because I'm 33 My my time is not done This is not the end and I didn't know like I was seeking out this hope Where am I going to find hope during this? Kind of mourning process with this running injury and sure enough. I was like, okay These guys are kind of old. They're getting older. This is awesome. I can still do this if they can run at a high level I know I can run at a high level. So anyway, that is step number two Inject hope into the situation and step three. It's also a good step I allow myself to begin to dream again. You better believe it just last week and listen again This is probably written down in a book But I'm literally communicating this to you because it just happened and it's a reminder to what happened to me 10 times during college at the University of Colorado like so many times I had to go through these five steps of dealing with running injury. So step three. I Allowed myself to dream again. So what did I start doing? I started dreaming of other marathon races now I'm not giving up on Cleveland. You better believe it. I'm not giving up But I allowed myself to know that there's more than Cleveland, you know There's more out there and whether it's something in July who knows like that's kind of quick But you never know if I heal up and it's it's doing well I keep a shorter training block. So yeah nice and short like four or five weeks based off of this fitness And then boom, let's hit the starting line and get after it in July or maybe something in September Or who knows maybe something in the fall So I allow myself to dry I personally last last week and for you it might be allowing yourself to dream again for the next You know, I hate to say it But maybe the next cross-country season if you're at the end of your track season and you have to throw in the towel That's okay. Let's start dreaming about the next cross-country season. That's all I'm saying is like and I know This is not earth-shattering, but and I know this step is not earth-shattering But I think it's just a good reminder that it's good to have goals Like that's another way to phrase it if you don't like the the term dreams goals like allow yourself to set goals again After you have put hope back into the situation and step number four Okay, so you've kind of been dreaming up in the clouds. You've been floating around and with hope It's time to come back to reality and use all right. Use that hope Don't forget it You got to use that hope use those dreams as fuel for the upcoming Suffering because you know that cross-training is gonna hurt. It's gonna be tie. It's gonna be tiring It's gonna be a little boring and yes, it's probably gonna be lonely Why because you're in a gym or you're out you're doing something out of your You might not be with your team if you're on a team in your training Like you might be in the pool swimming for an hour like that can get a little tedious at times So you can't forget that you got to come back So step four come back to reality and build off of step two and step three so that you're ready for that suffering There's just no other way around it. You are going to suffer through the cross-training I know that I am already but I do believe because of step five that I'm actually thriving and now the fifth and final Step for thriving through a running injury. Oh gosh. Here we go. Are you ready for this? Basically, it's the power of the mind the power of the will Making the choice to say to yourself I am going to do this cross-training But here's my kind of radical trick and I know and this is okay. This depends on How how bad you want it? This depends on what type of race you're getting ready for this depends on maybe Maybe your competitive nature and maybe you're not as competitive and that's fine But for me for what I do I basically and it depends on where you are at in your training block. All right, there's a lot of factors here I basically Challenge myself And say to my and I did this in college and I I came back. I forgot about this I came back in college after a stress fracture and I won a race. I kind of forgot about that I won a cross-country race kind of going away at the Air Force Academy It was the JV race and it was the JV cross-country race. I'll have to look up those results somewhere And but it was because I did I was determined to what to come back More fit or just as fit as I was when I got injured. How radical is that? So basically you're at your top of your fitness. You are feeling good. You're feeling ready to rip a fast race Boom injury. You have to make the choice and that's what I've done That's what I've done for Cleveland and I don't know what the I don't know what the outcome is going to be But what I've done is I've said to myself with my mind I will if I can race cleveland I will be just as fit or more fit than the moment I got injured last monday And I know that's radical I know that's a little crazy and it depends it all depends on your life situation But that's how I approach it. Why because it gives me A challenge and that is that my youtube family my friends my I almost said my loved ones You are my loved ones that my friends and my youtube family is Uh what we runners Live for and and and fight for we want a good good challenge a great challenge And that is what I've put before myself right now. That's what I did back in college And maybe depending on your situation that might be what you need for your situation right now Keyword thrive keyword thrive. Those are my five steps. If you need to go back and re-watch this I get it I knew I I know I just threw a lot at you and I'm just gonna throw it out there question of the day What would you add or if you want to take away? But what would you add to? Thriving especially mentally Through a running injury. All right, and we've dabbled in this topic I know I know we're kind of hitting this a lot this injury Well, it's because it's what I'm dealing with right now, but I know a lot of you are injured So shed some light what would be what what step would you add for dealing and more importantly thriving Through a running injury. I love you guys. That's amazing. Ah, what a great day. I gotta go to bed I gotta go back. I gotta go back. I gotta see beauty work hard love each other We got this