I'm a very focused, driven person. I will always reach my goal if it is at all possible, so I think really hard before making goals or decisions, because once they are made, I'm not going to change them and will do everything I can to reach that goal. Sometimes to my detriment. One of my New Year's Resolutions this year was to work out 260 days, which sounds like a lot, but really is only 5 days/week. I was doing great, but then I broke my elbow and that put a cramp in my style. It took me until the end of June to catch up (which entailed about 2 months of working out 6-7 days/week) and get back on track so I can make 260 this year.

About 6 weeks ago, in my quest to catch up on workouts, I pulled a muscle behind my knee. Or at least I think that's what I did. I'm hypersensitive about knees because I tore mine a couple years ago and had to have surgery. But did that stop me? Nope. I've continued to muddle through runs and not give it a chance to rest. I figured it wasn't a real injury, because it only hurt when running and then stopped hurting when I stopped running, and some days it didn't hurt at all. But then it started hurting sooner and sooner in the run, so I had to cut back to running once a week rather than 3 times.

And all that was well and good, until this morning. I ran for 45 minutes and it didn't bother me at all until about the last 5 minutes, so I was congratulating myself on it finally starting to heal, but then I got home and wouldn't you know it? It still hurts. Drat. So my question to you is this- do you baby yourself when you're injured or just push through? How much time do you take to recover and heal?I'm more of a push through person, which sometimes gets me in trouble (like the knee that still hurts 6 weeks later!) and never seem to give myself time to fully heal.