Inflammation PT

It’s taken me 5 years to be able to run pain free and today I ran 8 miles! 🥳

For anyone who knew me before I got AS will know I was a half decent runner and reached the top standard of fitness in the RN as a PTI, so losing the ability to run used to weigh heavily on me when I first got diagnosed.

Over the last 5 years my attitude has changed and I’m just happy to not be in pain and to be able to lift weights, but I knew eventually if I carried on this way my inflammation and pain would get low enough that I’d be able to run again. I just didn’t know how long it would take.

I’ve made some real progress with leg weights this year mainly with squatting, RDL and lunging and today I could feel I was ready so I went for it 🫡

No medals for speed and the last few miles felt like a survival documentary as I was completely spent 😂 but I feel like I’ve made a huge achievement today and excited to build on top of this.

Think I may be quite sore the next few days though 😬

Who can relate to this?