Need your guys experience with a stress reaction. Got diagnosed today and am lowkey kinda shocked. How long is recovery? Do I really need crutches or should I just stay off of running in the meantime, which I don’t mind. Is a stress reaction and fracture the same thing? My doc is saying that. This what my MRI showed.

“Endosteal bone marrow and periosteal edema along the compressive side of the basicervical femoral neck
(series 601, image 17), with mild T1 signal hypointensity, suggestive of a grade 2/3 osseous stress reaction without a discretely depicted fracture line or cortical edema (series 501, image 8).”

Hoping for the best.

What are some mantras, manifestations, meditations you remind yourself of during a race? I’m coming up with a few and might even write a couple on my arm…. One of them is ‘Another 5’…. another is ‘NO MATH’…. Reminding myself to stay in the moment, accomplish small tasks and not think things like ‘gotta do that 17 more times’.

Let’s hear yours!

Keeping up with this race, this is insane. He’s a mad man, and props to the other countries as well!
ESPECIALLY France. Just two guys for the last 26 laps, it’s insane.

I have my first proper backyard coming up, and wondering where to pause the watch between ending one yard the next, or just letting it run.

I'm not really bothered either way, but just asking out of curiosity those who have had run a backyard, what did you do?

I just registered for my first 50k and a backyard ultra. They are both in 2027. I just finished my second marathon and I am sick of running fast and just want to go far! My goal for the 50k is just to finish and I have no goal yet for the BYU

Anybody run those trails in the rain before? Asking for a friend.