You never change a winning team. Really?

The last two weeks have been dedicated to fixing and recovering something that had all the characteristics to be a really bad injury. Without surprise I didn't feel psychologically down or, as many prefer to say, depressed, due to the fact that I couldn't run. I really didn't freak out this time. I rested. I ate more than I am supposed to and I had a great time. I also focussed more on my work at university. I can say that I enjoyed it so much. It was actually divine.
Not that I want to experience it again, of course. An injury is always an injury, after all.
The supervision of my physiotherapist had many invaluable benefits; it not only allowed me to recover in a very short time with respect to the other injuries I got in the past, but it also taught me some lessons I will hardly forget.
Every injury has its own story, and every injury teaches me something I will treasure for myself and my fellow runners.
Stressing the posterior tibial tendon should not be an easy task for an advanced runner. Fixing it and persuading a patient to go back on the road in less than 10 days is everything but easier for a physiotherapist. Injured runners usually want to go back on the road as soon as they can. Sometimes much sooner. Coming from an experience that forced me to stay at home for 6 months, I decided not to take the risk and throw my entire faith in Kathelijn, my physiotherapist. I don't know what will happen in the near future but I have the impression that she was right on many aspects.
I'll keep writing in first person here, even though I am sure that many runners will recognise themselves in my words.

One big problem of runners who really cannot stay at home is that they have too much confidence. That's in general a good thing. But abusing of the good stuff might be threatening. When it comes to running, They I have confidence in many related things. Themselves Myself, the gloves that keep them me warm enough during a long run, the gel bags and the battery of the mp3 player in extreme cold conditions. The better the gear I use, the more I believe I will never get injured. Or, to be even more specific, the better the shoes I buy, the faster I exclude them as the principal source of my problems.
Do you recognise yourself now?

In retrospect, which is always easier to claim but not trivial enough to be excluded in the future, the problem of the posterior tibial tendon is apparently related to the type of shoes I have been wearing during some long distance running sessions.
Shoes has always been a problem indeed. One mistake I am sure many runners keep repeating consists in loving their shoes and getting attached to the same model for years. While this sounds reasonable, since if those shoes perform well there wouldn't be any reason to change, it can turn out to be harmful.
In fact, during the years runners tend to become more and more expert, their body adapts to increased milage or to a new training intensity, in many possible ways. As a consequence a model of shoes that was performing quite well some years or even months before, turns out to be less indicated, when not absolutely wrong.
In other words, heel strikers who were used to run with more protective shoes, can get damaged by the same model, after they learned how to run more on the front foot. Same happens for slight pronators who find out a way to improve their running technique.
At least, this is the most likely explanation of my last running issue.

Running happy.