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you are is not who you are -Circumstances Nayyirah Waheed These 8 little words resonated with me last Fall, as I struggled to heal a running injury to my achilles tendon. For the last 15 years running has been my fitness and sanity go-to. I traded in the structure of gym memberships and aerobics classes for the schedule-free, instructor-free world of running and the endorphin-hit has kept me coming back for more. Through the dark, cold mornings of winter to the heavy, humid days of summer, I have been a (slow &) steady, running machine. Until this Fall, when I hurt my leg. The injury was an overly stretched achilles tendon. This was very inconvenient as it threatened to interrupt my well-planned training schedule. A schedule that was preparing me to run a 10 km race. My first instinct was denial. I could feel the beginning of a tinge in the tendon…but chose to ignore it, stuck to my schedule, pushed through, got my long run in for that week and then rested. (Type A personalities: does this sound familiar?)
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