The Fine Line

Preface:   A THANKS to the hearts who have inspired me to this day and to this moment!  I have never approached a ‘Blog” out of superficiality, or duty and obligation, yet from the depth of the passion I have for the nomadic life.  As we shall see, there might be many more that yearn and hunger for the holistic aspects of distance running and the expression of their humanity.  Pass on a special place and hopefully this forum can provide a good foundation for the many regular, daily revolutions we should all expect!  

THE FINE LINE

Have you been injured?  Well… are you a distance runner??!  Whether you are injured now, or have just come through a recovery, you might have already begun to discern the existent “fine line” between rehabilitation and re-injury.  I like to call it “the dangerous place”.  However, that place in ‘getting better’ is sometimes a place we must be!

The premise here is this: Who is a serious efforted distance runner who has NOT been injured?  So!  Let’s take a minute to look closer at this “fine line” in our process of overcoming what we have faced or do face.  It is often the holistic runner’s greatest desire to simply be out covering miles normally and naturally.

Our rehabilitation is a process to our running naturally again.  It is because we covet this freedom so much that sometime we cross the “fine line” to re-injuring ourselves.  We have a need then…  we need to be able to softly dance through each facet of our rehabilitation respectively… the need to be gentle and patient… dancing on “the fine line”, while holding steady without demands. 

In the need for rehabilitation and recovery, there is usually a specific tension.  Sometimes mystic and sometimes painful! Returning to normal condition, and a natural running expression without pain, often demands a steady mind to hold us true.  True through tension and discomfort… keeping ourselves strictly on “the fine line” until we pass over to complete recovery!  Remember, it will come!!  It WILL come!