What the f…..oot?
09.27.08
Seriously, what the foot people? About 3 weeks ago while still running in my too narrow, not enough cushion for me Mizunos I started to feel pain while running on the outside part of the bottom of my left foot. Didn’t think much of it. After a 15 mile run last week the pain went to a new level. I started to feel sharp nerve pains through my toes and a very localized pain under my foot near my little toe. Then I ran a hard track set a few days later which took it up another notch. Hmmmmm, wasn’t sure what the hell was going on. The symptoms when not running very much mimicked pain I’ve experienced before when I had a stress reaction in my 4th metatarsal. I iced, massaged and used my foot rubz ball all week in prep for the Bolder Backroads.
During the race my foot warmed up and it felt good - dull pain but definitely did not get worse. Ran 17 that day and was in alot of pain afterwards.
I had the foot massage from hell (a gift from above) on Wednesday where my therapist worked all the fascia in between my metatarsals. Big progress was made. I ran on Thursday virtually pain free with out much backlash following.
Yesterday I ran a hard 6 with pain almost every step, it definitely warmed up after 4 miles and felt the best during the last few miles and after the run while still walking around but then as it cooled it started to get painful. I spent about 2 hours last night self caring myself…..rolled out my whole body on the roller, massaged my foot, stretched my foot, iced my foot etc. etc. As of right now it’s freaking painful….I’m back to where I was after the Backroads race.
I’m noticing everything - when it hurts, how it hurts, what makes it better, worse, is it hot, it is cold, stiff, painful, not painful etc. etc. etc. I can not figure it out but I will keep trying.
This is something that I feel I need to keep training through, my gut is telling me that I will run the marathon but that this won’t necessarily be 100% healed until afterwards. I have a stablizer this week then a 20 mile run a week from tomorrow. I think I’m going to have to put a hell of alot of effort back into it to keep things at bay over the next month.