Recovery Finale (Hopefully)

What I've found helpful in my recovery process:

* Stretching multiple times prior to running
* Altering my running gait to land more toward the midfoot instead of the heel
* Decreasing the angle of bend in each elbow to much lower than the oft-suggested 90 degrees -- more like 45 degrees
* Fish oil caps, specifically Flameout from Biotest (it's definitely an ad for their product but the linked article is a good read for informational purposes on its own)
* New running shoes, specifically the 860 by New Balance (after a completely failed experiment with another NB shoe that may in fact have caused the basketball injury, and an only moderately successful trial with Asics that showed I can have shoes that actually rebound from the forefoot instead of flattening out with no response on impact)

Having just returned from an unplanned record-breaking three miler despite being almost ten pounds heavier today than the day of the injury, the worst appears to be over. That I've only been running seriously for about ten days but set a new record tells me I was over-training at the time of the injury and needed some serious down-time anyway. I'm not going to make any of my annual goals in terms of mileage or frequency, and being 15-20 pounds away from 265 with two major eating holidays left this year makes it seem unlikely that I'll hit the weight goal either, but all things considered this could have gone much worse -- and much longer.