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Friday, 08 July 2016 23:10

ED. Lots of great racing happened today. Our coverage will begin on Monday.

By Emy Everhart (emy-everhart.com)

“Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.” – Kara Goucher

It appears that my greatest challenge this season will be the emotional toll of injury. Heh, that sounds kind of dramatic, I suppose. But really, when so much of your time and mental and physical energy go toward planning for training, training, planning for racing, and racing, it’s a heavy blow when injury forces you to revise an entire season of racing.
On Tuesday June 21st I saw Dr. Michael Williams at Premier Sport and Spine for another session of...

Transverse Friction Massage (TFM), “a deep tissue technique that is performed at the site of the injury in order to breakdown scar tissue and remodel it to be a more flexible, pliable, and a more functional tissue.” (source: Premier Sports & Spine – TFM). Oh, and this hurts like hell, by the way, so it must be effective, right? Since we weren’t seeing the improvement in the injured area of my left leg that we were hoping for, Dr. Michael ordered a MRI and I was able to get an imaging appointment that evening after work. The results were in by the next day: stress reaction, developing fracture in my upper tibia. Clearly this confirmed that running would be out of the equation for some unknown period of time.