I haven't been running for over 1 month... The 31th of August I went for my "last" run and the week after my physiotherapist forbid me from running... And the reason is that my right leg started to feel numb and I lost a bit of sensation in my thigh. The diagnosis is fairly clear now, I most lightly have a vertebral compression that gives me all these problems. The good news in this misery is that it's probably not the running itself that gave me this because the triggering incident was my pregnancies when I had exactly the same symptoms. When I increased my running more and further I've also triggered my vertebral compression again.
I've been cycling to and from work like usual and doing the exercise that my physiotherapist gave me but I have to say that I find it BORING. So boring that I didn't feel any joy to exercise and that's dangerous... I know the routine, when something is boring you eventually stop doing it. So to prevent this I joined a gym. It's close to home, they have babysitters and it's not the most expensive one in Stockholm (but I do admit I find it expensive anyway).
And it is more fun to exercise at the gym, the classes are really good and even if I thought I would break my back during a Bikram yoga class last week it's fun to exercise again!
Now I'm allowed to run 1 minute and walk 1 minute times 5. Even if it sounds terribly insignificant in comparison to a marathon it's better than nothing... And my physiotherapist says I'm slowly making progress!
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