Thanks for your insight with this! it is great to hear that there have been athletes that have come back from this injury quite well!!! That alone, is music to my ears right now!!!
I was also told that this is somewhat of a ‘rare’ injury. Fortunately, I was diagnosed ~5 weeks after the initial onset of symptoms. There was some suspicion, but mostly for other things, and the results of the MRI were a bit of a surprise to both me, the dr., and the radiologist. At this time, I have been placed on crutches and non-weightbearing on the fractured side because there is some concern about the stability of this thing since there is a significant fracture line present on the MRI, but have been given a 2-3 mo healing time. Unfortunately, I have no hx of trauma, never had a stress fx before, have no hx of female athlete triad/disordered eating (which seems to be the typical population for this injury…), take care of myself pretty well during training/racing via stretching, massage, core work, etc, and have never had any major setbacks due to injury in my 7 yrs in this sport (including several IMs). So, in other words, the presentation is quite atypical.
Although it sucks to not be racing in Canada, and also have racing in Clearwater now be in jeopardy, I will say that I AM glad that I listened to my body, and went to have things checked out before racing an IM on something that was ‘not quite right’. From what I am told, it could have been very ugly if I would have raced an IM on this…