Running after broken wrist????

[begbiecat1]

Has anyone else run with a recovering broken wrist? I was in a cast for 5 weeks and didn't run because of the risk of falling.

I am now out of cast but the wrist is still very stiff and painful.

I was just about to start week 8 and now don't know where to start from again.

Just after a bit of reassurance and advice 😊

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Yeah, I ran with mine plastered. I avoided trails and hills for weeks after it came out though. I never ran roads so that was ok. I’d be looking for nice flat grass, so local municipal football fields and the likes.

If I were you I’d try the run you were going for and see how far I could get and then use that time to drop back onto the programme at a point I could deal with.

[Bandit14 Graduate]

I broke mine in March ( slipped in the snow) and had surgery to 're wire the bones - trust me to make a proper mess of it😁

Wrist was ok once out of cast ( long time where i was completely useless at everything ) but due to such a long period with not a lot of movement I lost some use of my upper arm muscles - it's getting better with physio but I still struggle to do anything other than light stuff with that arm.

It was one of the reasons I started c25k as was inactive for such a long time I had to get moving lol

I never really thought about it affecting how I did runs - just have to be careful not to swing my arms too much - as that still hurts.

Good luck with it xx