 Like I said true love is off to a wedding papa's in charge. Oh and by the way by the way Michael's never ever gone to bed by himself without me in his whole life. So he doesn't have a leg. He'll be fine So we're gonna have a great day. We're gonna have a great day, and thanks for bringing the birthday party And there's a birthday. I'm taking the kids to a birthday party all with a scooter Taking in the 2018 London marathon just watching a little replay with Michael the boys are at the birthday party. Come on Michael We're back in the studio. All right, here we go 732 p.m. All three boys are asleep fast asleep We had a big tiring day. It's the little victories in life, right? I'm home alone true loves at a wedding, but we got it We got it done with crutches and all and the scooter as well That was a that was a fun day and again tomorrow. We're gonna discuss how I Mentally even physically but more so mentally get through running Injuries so come back tomorrow for my thoughts on what I because I haven't been injured I guess since last fall and we probably dabbled in this topic a little bit But I really want to dive in tomorrow about how I get through and even thrive through running injury So come back for that. Okay. Are you ready for this? I've been running for 20 years I'm gonna list for you all and I mean every single one that I could remember I and I didn't write down all of them as they happened over the last 20 years But I will say if you are oh, I don't know. I think it was a really healthy no pun intended Activity for me to go through over the last 20 minutes. I just sat at my computer and wrote down Every single injury I could remember and what I qualify as an injury a running injury is an injury that takes me out Where I cannot run because it's too painful for example I had shin splints once two years ago and I was able to run through it So I'm not I'm not calling that an injury Officially because it was not probably as severe as some of you have experienced with shin splints So that doesn't count for me. It's something that like knocks me down takes me out and I cannot run All right, are you ready for this list? It was again really healthy for me to just go through and pick up on trends and patterns Of my running injuries and there are patterns sadly and that's something for me to work on moving forward, right? Okay, here we go planar fasciitis 7th grade 1998 I remember my dad and I my I would lay on the couch and my dad would massage my foot and it because it hurt so bad It was really bad. Oh man 7th grade That's rough and they put me up on those heel lifts and they did not work And I've heard now that those heel lifts are like not really recommended these days So this is the late 90s I think research has just and more information is now available more experiences have been shared from from people who have gotten over planar fasciitis Anyway, 7th grade PF first injury second injury stress fracture 9th grade 2 the year 2000 3rd metatarsal Yeah, it just happened my sophomore. I think it was my sophomore year of high school. No fun. No good And we thought it was a sprain. No, we thought it was a Pulled we thought we pull I had pulled something in my big toe somebody yanked on my toe Don't let somebody do that. Anyway, that was my second injury third injury a lot of you suffer from this IT band it I've only had an IT band once in my life thankfully But it's it's rough and it was right on my right knee. How did I get over it? Quarter zone shot. I'm not saying I would recommend a quarter zone shot It took a little while for it to kick in but it was probably about two weeks later where the quarter zone seemed to help and speed up the healing Combined with stretching and all that as well But anyway IT band 10th grade 2001 and just so you know it happened on a really Cold morning. I met some some classmates before school at like 6 probably 15 a.m It was freezing up in the mountains and I stopped running and immediately I felt it in my knees So just be aware of that in cold conditions with IT band. Okay Moving on to call so high school in middle school. I had three injuries go going on to college. Here we go I'm not good I'm gonna kind of combine a couple of them because they it happened so much So basically planar fasciitis twice in 2006 2007 again Probably wasn't stretching enough and again I don't know if there was as much information out there about PF with respect to stretching like I was stretching Don't get me wrong, but I mean really intentional Stretching and massaging and loosening of your entire kinetic chain So anyways PF twice and the second time I had surgery. Oh It was a hard decision, but we did everything we did ultrasound we did quarter zone shots we did We did one other well We did the night split of course we did everything in the books nothing seemed to be working So at the end of the day, I flew to California went to a world-renowned foot surgeon And he put me under the night I went under the knife and sure enough it worked So I'm grateful that I did it because it saved kind of some of my collegiate running But it was not an easy decision again. That was 0607 and then stress fractures from 06 to 09 I had two in my pelvis tibia Again another metatarsal I'm not even gonna remember all of them So there was a lot in college 06 to 09 again Are you picking up on this pattern and it's something to for you to think about if you are prone to certain injuries like hamstring or runner's knee or Man, let's see even just like ankle or Achilles. Oh So Achilles is like well the Achilles heel right like if if your Achilles is messed up There's so much torque happening through your Achilles in your running gate and running cycle I'm your Achilles is key. So anyway, all right, and then after college guess what I kind of took a break And so those are all my college injuries pf stress fractures over and over and over again You see in the pattern. All right moving on. I took time off after college chilled out mentally physically I did not have another injury a serious injury until last fall. So 2018 so we're talking of almost 10 years of And I was running pretty pretty intense for the last four years as an ultra runner So I was pretty proud pretty happy that I was able to stay healthy for so long Until last fall when the pf popped up again. Actually, it was really last summer Where it popped up and then it really got bad in the fall So pf last fall again, remember how it probably released it in this footage that you're watching right now I was in first place in this 5k and basically I felt I felt it go in my left foot I just felt something kind of tear ish. Oh gosh and something released and Sure enough like it swelled up and then two three days later. I was basically pain-free again Just craziness. It's not the best situation But as a competitive runner, you know how it is like these things happen when you're putting your body through so much stress Okay, and now the most recent injury this less Frank And you guys Liz Frank sprain I'm putting in parentheses stress fracture only because we don't know officially yet The podiatrist is calling it a list Frank sprain. We shall see so that's now 2019 so roughly one two three and then four five I'm gonna say 20 running injuries in the last 20 years Approximately roughly right around there. So oh not fun, you know not enjoyable and I'm gonna do some more reflecting in the next well when I'm riding on the stationary bike and you it's a little Time it's like mindless time on the stationary bike and I'm just gonna think about ha Okay, what do I need to do to stay healthy moving forward and yes keep fighting and again keyword is fight so that we here on this YouTube family this running channel that continues to Go crazy like you guys are spreading the word and this channel continues to grow and it's blowing me away And I just hope that some of my insights from all of these injuries can help you Moving forward as far as how to avoid them how to fight through them question of the day Do you care to share a list of some of your running injuries? If you'd like and I know that's gonna be a little time-consuming if you have a lot of them But maybe do bullet points down below again. I think we can help each other Maybe you will read down below. Okay, this person has had Runner's knee four times and like what's going on? How did they get over it? Maybe they can help you or maybe somebody has a hip issue and they they you know And you can you can lean into their wisdom as to how they got over their hip it hip issue So that's the first option the second option is or are you noticing any patterns in your injuries? So obviously I am with the pf and the stress fractures and yeah, yeah, man So I love you guys again second video publishing today the London Marathon Elite results. It's gonna be exciting. We're going we're going live here in like six hours. It's gonna be so fun We'll sit well when you watch it when you're watching this it already happened, but and that's it All right seek beauty work hard and love each other keep fighting We got this we got this