Today’s run brought to you by…No Run At All!
Yeah, that’s right. No long run for me today. It appears as though Old Wonky has decided to stay for a bit. While he’s not being a total pain, he is annoying the hell out of me. I need him to go away like that little mucus guy from those gross commercials.
Um, hellooo I have a triathlon on Saturday. What gives?
Well, I self-diagnosed myself, as we runners are wont to do and here’s what I found. The Old Wonky tends to hang out under my ankle bone on the outer part of my foot. This tendon is called the peroneus longus. Heh. The name of it makes me laugh. Anyway, that is where my pain is. And sure enough, according to this site it’s pain is caused by “running along slopes causing excessive eversion (rolling out) of the foot.
DAMN YOU GANGSTER HILLS! I always knew there was sniper on those hills.
Fortunately, I feel that I am paying better attention this go ’round and have learned to ease up before it gets worse. So instead of my long run this AM I rode the bike 16 miles. (Hey that’s a lot for me!) In any event I’ll be R.I.C.E.ing right until Saturday and then it’ll be a game day decision. I know I can gut out a 5K run but I don’t want to knock myself out of training for MCM.
Is it something that shoes with stabilization can help? Hope it's better by race time!
I'm sorry : ( injuries totally suck! I say you can gut it out and do it!
First, I'm sorry to hear you're laid up for a bit. I hope it helps immensely and you're able to compete next weekend!
Second, thanks so much for sharing this sports injury site. It has a lot more information than I've been able to find elsewhere!
Definitely not worth risking injury that will keep you out of training! I'll be running the MCM 10k that day (since I'm doing Chicago 3 weeks before), but a few of my friends are running the MCM too! I should be there cheering on the sidelines! (And I might totally have commented this before… I don't even remember what I write anymore.)
Game day decision sounds so professional! Eat plenty of RICE and you'll be good to go on Saturday……..
Can't wait to hear what you did!