Hi, this is Debbie Boyles, Coach at Mojo for Running with podcast number 92,

valuable perspective on a few days off from running.

If you have to take a few days off from running, for whatever reason, it will be much easier

if you put it into the right perspective. On a regular basis, someone texts, calls, or emails

me in a state of great anxiety because they have an ache or a pain. Sometimes it is something

that is, in fact, an injury already, but more often it is not a full-bun

injury, yet something that can be cured by a few days off for running, but that doesn't stop

them for being super, super stressed out about it. The state of extreme stress happens to runners of all levels,

although veteran runners take it in stride, to some extent, because it's likely happened to them

before. In some ways, though, it's even harder on them, because their running has become such a

way of life, they're so regimented that any interruption in their

schedule just drives them nuts. Sometimes whatever it is that's causing the discomfort is from

running, but just as often, it's the result of cross-training, working in their yard, moving

the wrong way, lifting a child, or something else. In the last few weeks, I've had runners

in pain due to running a short distance while carrying a two-year-old, yes, that did happen,

twisting an ankle on the way to the mailbox, and joining a new class at the Y. I've had others

missed days, several days at a time due to the flu,

a death in the family, too many hours at work or school, and other problems. When there's any

injury, whether it's related to running or not, taking a few days off from work is never ill-advised.

I said, taking a few days off from work, I mean taking a few days off from work is never ill-advised. I said taking a few days off from work, I mean taking a few days

off from running. Yes, I'm a running coach, and yes, I did say that. In fact, it's usually the first

thing I suggest to take a few days off. Now, my runners hate to hear this,

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