First step towards becoming a runner again

It has almost been one year since my last post on my blog. A year of struggling and realizing I might not be a runner anymore. After my last post I had a period where I managed to start running 3 times every week, I even managed to get a point where I could run approx 12 - 15 km.

At New Year I participated in the yearly race in Odense in the slowest time I've ever run this race, but I finished it. BUT shortly after I got a severe setback; during a training on a treadmill on Malta in January, I got a sharp pain right under my knee shell. Despite a longer break I decided to seek medical help

Last autumn I got a message from my medical doctor that I was just getting old, and should expect to live with the challenges I had. And since my training results improved during November and December, I decided to try to train as good as it was poosible. As long as I didn't have any pain, it was good for my health.

But now I had pain and no matter how much rest I gave it, I could not run longer than 1 km. So I had to get some help from a chiropractor.

After a couple of months of treatment without result, he ordered a MR-scan. Unfortunately it showed that I last Summer got a really severe injury playing soccer, right before my marathon from Slagelse to Skælskør. And this injury probably mean that I will never be able to run long distances again!!

Wow - I have always considered myself as a runner, but now it was like part of my identity was removed right away. It took me a couple of weeks to digest this information.

But I had to restart my "career", I just had to figure out, what kind of career... I have always wanted to do a full Ironman, so my decision to buy a racing bike was an obvious path.

So I took the decision to not run for 3 months to see if my knee would heal, and instead bike all summer.

And now I am at the point where I will start run a little again, to see if I can restart the part of my identity I call a "runner"