Run.Eat.Repeat

When I chose to run in college I knew it was going to be full of ups and downs. When you run a lot your body starts to hate you a lot because you are slowly breaking yourself. Our bodies aren't built to run 60 miles a week and push yourself to the absolute limit 3 times a week during workouts. Growing up playing sports it never took much for me to get injured. My leg muscles and joints just have never been tough enough to endure what I put them through for long amounts of time. So when I chose college running I knew I was going to have to be very mentally tough throughout my 4 years here at Bradley. Now I am a senior and not to say I predicted the future but I have had quite my fair share of setbacks. From tearing my hamstring at an indoor conference meet to straining just about every muscle in my quad, and my latest I.T. band issue. Looking back it would have been so easy to jus give up. Yeah its pretty easy to go to treatment every morning and do exercises for 30 min every day ...

Well to start this off I just wanna say that I am 87% sure that my last blog post jinxed me. It was all about running, the good the bad and the even worse. And what do you know it we are now in the even worse stage. Recently I have been having a lot of problems with my I.T. band. This is a muscle that runs along the outside of your leg. It starts at your hip and runs all the way down to your knee. So basically if this muscle becomes very tight (like mine) you have extreme pain whenever you bend your leg at your knee. So basically anything except laying in bed motionless. Soooo yeah things are going great. Now instead of running I wake up at the crack of dawn to do lots and lots of painful exercises to try to strengthen basically all of my leg muscles so that my muscle magically happens to un-tighten from its ball of fury. You would think that running 50 miles a week would strengthen your legs right? Yeah I thought so too but the answer is no. Actually running so much just makes me mu...