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Running

Does anyone else with MS run? I've long wanted to compare notes with others MSers who run. Everything from cooling techniques, coping with symptoms, stiffness, getting a sense of how performance is effected. Are there ever runs specifically for MSers? Is there any place that people discuss these things? Or am I alone in being determined to carry on running despite MS?
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I got into a bad way re. locomotion some time back. But I found that by super gently jogging (mincing small steps like a geriatric) I could get going again. I find balance and handling staggering & trips easier when jogging gently than when walking. Then bit by bit I build up distance and speed. When feeling fatigue, I try to get out anyway, as almost always I find that there's more energy in my than it feels there is. For me there's some disconnect between how I feel and how my body can actually perform. I really encourage you to try to feel positive in this Chels. I'm convinced that exercise is one of our best medicines, and that almost everyone has more go in them than they realise. So easy to slide onto the wrong side of the equation where handicaps make exercise more difficult which makes handicaps worse. For me important not to compare how things were or could have been, with how we are now - rather try to make the most of now. My strategy/ambition is to try to get into a super positive frame of mind and find ways that work for me. Crikey, now I'm sounding like a silly and boring evangelist, where I just wanted to respond with encouragement. But I'll wager that, with your drive, you'll be jogging again Chels.

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Oh, and good luck bukowski. Great ambition. Sending power to your mind and body.