Today (I wrote this text on the 8th of February, 2026), I realized that the speed of my walking is the key.
Today, despite my injured leg, I carried on my back and shoulders 24 kg (53 lbs) of additional weight. Did I get crazy? After all, I wrote that I should have been returning to rucking in March 2026. Perhaps I got crazy. Still, my internal wound did not hurt before, during, or after rucking. How is that possible? I won’t provide proofs for my theory, which is rather a practice, but I simply feel that the speed of my walking is the key. I remember that one week ago, when I came out of my home for a short walk to take some pictures, I started to walk fast.
Even though I did not have any rucksack at all, due to the quite fast pace of walking, I started to feel that there was something wrong with my wound.
I realized it was due to the fast pace of walking. Once I slowed down, everything returned to the proper state, a state without pain. What do rucking, walking with a heavy rucksack, have in common with all these things? Walking with a heavy rucksack prevents me from speeding up my walk. That’s the main thing. That’s how I believe rucking helps me in my recovery. Today, I was walking really slowly (I took almost 200 pictures and took over 10k steps), and I did not feel pain in my wound at any point in time while walking.
Even now, when I write this text late in the evening, I do not feel pain in my right calf (it is the place where I got an injury).
That’s how I plan to add rucking to my recovery plan. I hope I won’t hurt myself, but I want to simply try it. Of course, it does not mean that tomorrow I will be walking with 37.5 kg (83 lbs) on my back and shoulders. I simply think that I will increase the weight of my rucksack next week.
