Injuries...

Injuries are probably those most annoying part of any physical activity. Oddly enough mine is not through running which could be a blessing in disguise. My key sport has always been volleyball and with that I have had a reoccurring knee injury that has once again got the best of me. My somewhat well known disease is called Osgood-Schlatter. It is an irritation of the patellar ligament and is usually found in young adolescents, such as myself, from over conditioning running or jumping. In my case though, its jumping.

X-ray showing stress
 of tendon/growth-plate

How will this affect me? Well it is recommended that I give most physical activity a rest for a little while which means I have to put running on hold. First, because it can be extremely painful, and second, I don't want to put my knees under any more stress because i'm going to be needing them for a while. Hopefully I will bounce back quickly as I have been enjoying running and want to get back into as soon as possible.

Obstacles

Living in Winnipeg can be a bit of a drag sometimes. We are midway through March and mother nature has decided to surprise us with a little blizzard. My plan was to begin running soon, however the streets are once again full of snow. This puts me in a interesting situation. I'm thinking I will need to begin going to an indoor track so that I do not fall behind schedule. I am also realizing that I will need to work around three big trips that I am going on this semester. Our school Mexico trip, a band/art trip to  New York as well as volleyball nationals in Edmonton. For me these trips offer nice little break ups in the case that I might be struggling, I just hope they do not set me back like the snowfall already has. At this point I really need spring to arrive.