Ouch, my foot - Corina's Marathon Blog

I ended last week hopeful that I was healing up well and would be back on my feet (literally) in no time. I took the rest of the weekend off and went for my first run in a week and a half on Monday. My foot was aching a bit and the 5 miles felt a lot longer than they should have done, but it was OK.

The not OK came after the run when I took my shoes off. When I put my foot down I got sharp stabbing pains on every step. Not good!

I hobbled my way through the rest of the day, resting it as much as I could and still do my job. I had hoped it would be enough and after a night’s rest I would be OK again. Wrong again.

I tried running again the following morning. I could feel my foot hurting on every step and abandoned after just half a mile. Damn. When Alan got home he taped my foot for me and it felt better. That lasted all of a few hours. 

That evening we went to visit San Diego Lions AFL team at their training session. They are awesome. The sport is so dynamic and fantastic to watch. And the players, who were all of different standards, ages and fitness levels, were all working hard throughout the session. It was great to see.

At one point I ran across the pitch to help one of the players with some stretching. Half way across I felt my foot give way. The sharp pains were back and this time they didn’t go away.

Since then I have not managed to recover. The pain is there all the time. It is slightly better in shoes than barefoot, but walking is about the limit of what I can do.

I have an appointment on Monday with Dr Chad Wells, who is a chiropractor specializing in lower limb and running injuries. Hopefully he will be able to work his magic on me and I’ll be back to training in time to still be on track for the Marathon. Dr Chad will be working from our studio soon too, so we are very excited.

For now I am doing more resting and I’ll let you know how I am healing up next week. The long runs are already looking really daunting, having taken 2 weeks off, so I really hope that I will be back running soon before they get downright scary.