The key to good recovering from a bad injury isn´t only due to the skill of the surgeons. You are master of your own body and noone else can make it heal or recover if you don´t believe strongly in it yourself. I use target focussing or target images in the way that many positive coaches call your attention to. In addition to this, you can also get some support from "small revenge" thinking. I have to admit that it would be very nice to race against my orthopedist who said "we´ll never know if you can walk again" or meet him after 21 km!
I was a little stiff yesterday after the 18 km the day before but I felt nothing in the knee area. I will make one or two more 10 km´s and then next week I will try to rest a little (if I can?). One problem with intense training and running is the addiction to endorphines. You will attain abstinence and this will get you more irritated, and you imagine that you have so much energy that needs to be taken care of (with running of course). I haven´t found any good substitution for this, yet. Or you just go on, here I must quote a student that presented himself on the public notice board with "a nice way to start your day is to get your shoes on at 05.30 and run for at least 20 km´s". Maybe that will help?
