Long Hiatus - Could I really be back?

 

It's been a long time.  

My last post was back in 2015 and my last run was a year earlier.  

There was a time when I ran and posted constantly - and enjoyed many fun runs, marathons, park runs and street races, but in 2014 I sustained a bad knee injury that put me off the track and road for a long time.

In truth, I thought I wouldn't run again.  My knee was so sore that I could hardly sleep without discomfort - driving was a pain.  Occasionally I would trot a bit just to see if, by miracle, the knee came back of it's own accord, but the pain would emerge after 100 metres.

I went to see a knee specialist who told me I had two options - 1) key-hole surgery 2) more extensive surgery.  Neither, he said, would guarantee any success - and running was definitely out of the equation.

And then - by total chance, I went to see a 'healer'.  This man, John Behan, was reportedly a 'seventh-son-of-a-seventh son'!  He had the 'healing power'.

I went with scepticism, but whatever the man did had me up and running within an hour....I KID YOU NOT!

Having said that - this was about a year ago - and I still didn't push on.  But slowly, I returned to walking and then, hey presto, today I took the plunge and ran for 20 minutes.

It's a start - and I'm excited about it.