Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

Good to be here with you again.

Yeah.

Good to have you back on this time in person.

Yes, this is good.

It's surreal when you form these meaningful relationships and connections online, and then you finally meet in person.

Yeah. It's like so backwards for how the human, for how the human brain is designed to function.

Yeah. It's nice. It was funny because we've connected over video so many times now with our check-ins,

with me coaching you and you helping me fix my sacral stress fracture or the mechanics that maybe led to that, I should say, that I was thinking this morning when I was like, telling Nicole as like reminders, like, Vinnie's coming over to record a podcast. And I was like, I don't think I've met Vinnie in person. But it took me a second to remember that because we've seen each other over video so many times now. It almost feels like we have met in person. Yeah, I'm watching you walk up to the car.

It's like a friend. Hey, yeah, yeah. It's good seeing you again, man. This is our first time meeting. Yeah, that's the world we live in now, I guess. Well, thanks for having me out, man. It needs a lot to Yeah, no, it's awesome to have you out here and it's one of the reasons I love Austin is people like to come through here.

So I get to bump into people that maybe I wouldn't see as often because of that. So, uh, happy that you were able to make the trip. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. So we got a lot to talk about, I think. Um, always. Yeah. Yeah. So you were, uh, one of the first people I reached out to. This would have been almost a year ago at this point,

it would have been end of April maybe.

I think end of April is when I first recognized, I think I have a stress fracture.

Yeah, your intuition told you that pretty sure, didn't it?

And it's one of those things where it's like,

I haven't had issues with stress fractures throughout my running career. I haven't had issues with bones in general. I've never broke a bone. I've just had two stress fractures, but it happens to be in the exact same spot both times. So it was like when I felt it, I was like, oh, that's not a normal injury. That feels exactly like the time I fractured my sacral.

And... hit, I was like, oh, that's not a normal injury. That feels exactly like the time I fractured

my sacral. And then I was like, okay, I know what to do in this scenario. And move one is do not

put weight on. Step number one. Stop injuring it. Yeah, stop doing the thing that created it in the first place.

Because it's different with soft tissue stuff.

Like some mobilization is usually advised.

It's just the right loading with soft tissue.

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