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How to rebuild identity when chronic injury ends your athletic life

I was a marathon runner for fifteen years and after my knee surgery I do not know who I am if I am not someone who runs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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When the body that carried your sense of self fails, you must learn to inhabit a version of yourself you never chose.

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