I still haven’t completed a run in 2020, but I’m getting closer.  This evening I “ran” in the pool after my swim.

My injuries have recovered enough, that I came up with the idea to re-start my ‘running’, by aqua jogging for a couple of weeks.  The pool that I use for swimming is unfortunately, not deep enough for me to aqua jog in water only.  I therefore resorted to a method that minimized impact on my stress-fractured foot. 

I used two pull buoys to give me some flotation and ‘ran’ along the floor of the pool.  I was able to use a minimum of interaction with the pool floor, to get the forward motion I needed. I feel that what I did, is really safe for my healing stress fracture.  I think my technique needs some work, but I did do 20 minutes of exercise, and I enjoyed it.

So, for the next two weeks, I am going to aqua jog after every swim.  Hopefully I can build up the time for each workout, such that when I am once again comfortable with regular running, I’ll be in decent shape to do so.

This is a great example of focusing on what I can do, and not on what I cannot do.  This is such an important mental thing to do during a long recovery from injuries.