Just keep running

[tomasienrbc]

Tonight I went out for a run, and 2 miles in I tripped and fell, cutting my knee and forcing my bad shoulder back out of place. Pried my shoulder back in place, made sure I could put weight on my leg, and finished the run as I had planned it.

Earlier in the day, I closed the first (and badly needed) major cash infusion from an outside source to my startup after 8 months of pure bootstrapping.

It the feeling I got after getting home from that run was remarkably similar to the feeling I got from finally getting the money my company needed.

[pestaa]

Congratulations for the successful fundraising!

But you do know you could have potentionally cause serious damage to your body when running injured? I'm no doctor and your motivational essay was far from a diagnosis, but still.

[stevetursi]

There's a qualitative difference between pain that's making an injury worse and pain that will go away if you can manage to ignore it. It's just different. Sorry that I can't explain it any better, except to say you'll know it when you have it.

To force consistency, I run every day - My running streak is at 390 days today and maintaining that (as in not breaking it) is the consistency strategy that has worked for me. There's even an organization of people like me - runeveryday.com. I have run through innumerable aches and pains. Most of the time, it's ok. Keep running. You'll know when to stop.