Injury is self inflicted
Injury is pushing too hard too often
Loving your sport too hard too often
Injury is not glamorous
Injury is wobbling out of a light practice
What you used to kill, you now barely survive
Injury is realizing you need to stop
Halfway through your warmup
Injury is dreaming about PRs and records
And wondering if you’ll ever get one again
Injury is falling down and getting kicked every time you try to get back up
Is going to the gym every time you try to get
back up
Is going to practice every time you try to get
back up
Is failing every time you try to get back up
Injury is never ending
Injury is knowing you’ll never be able to make up for lost time
What seconds did you lose in the days,
weeks, months you were away
Injury is cruel irony
Imposing limitations on the athletes who
thought themselves most invincible
Injury is second guessing needing that time out
Because breaks used to be optional
Because stopping used to be optional
And it was an option you always ignored
Injury is missing moments of your sport you never noticed
Nostalgia over the mundane because even
that seems lost to you
Injury is a promise to yourself
To never forget those moments again
Injury is a self renewal of your vow to your sport
A new marriage of passion with humility
An acceptance of what you can do
And what you can’t
But injury, you know, is only inspiring if you recover
And every day you try to say to yourself, when you recover
When I recover
You better watch out.
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