Foot improving

by SCL on May 18, 2013

Back on Dec 24, after a good 5 mile run, I started to experience a bad pain in my foot.  It hadn’t been 100% leading up to then, but I kept running on it, as I was trying to build up from my sciatica in the summer and prepare for a March marathon.  I was diagnosed with a bone bruise, to go with the plantar fasciitis I already knew I had.

I kept my hopes up for a quick recovery, but it was not meant to be.  In fact, I’ve learned the hard way that ankle injuries take time to heal.  Mine was not serious at all, but I am almost five months into it now, and only finally feeling like I can start to really work the run again.

This is the first week I’ve run more than once in the week, and on Wednesday I ran a 5k race in Riverside Park.  It was my first race since December, and only my 2nd since last May.

I’m very happy to be running again, able to do short races, and start to plan ahead for some races again.  I do have to be careful, because my plantar fasciitis is not fully better, and I know from prior experience with that persistent injury that it can take many months to fully recover from.

So, for now, I’ll be content with short runs to start building some strength, and PF willing, will start to build up my distance and runs per week, in the coming months.

Tomorrow is the Red Bank Triathlon, which is hopefully the last in a string of races I had signed up for, but would be unable to run due to injury.  Hopefully I’ll soon be able to solidify some fall and winter race plans, and stay healthy enough to run them!

 

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A Good Week

by SCL on February 24, 2013

As you may have noticed, I’m trying to post to my blog more, with a focus on the challenges I’ve been facing with injury and nutrition, with hope that it will keep me on the straight and narrow path to weight loss.

On the one hand, this past week was sad in the sense that the Asheville Marathon is coming up in a week, and I won’t be participating, due to my ankle injury and plantar fasciitis.  I ceremoniously unfollowed their twitter account and deleted my Google alert.  This way I at least won’t be constantly reminded in this last week of what is sure to be a great and fun inaugural event.  On the other hand, I had a pretty good week myself, with a good strength session with my personal trainer, a yoga class at my office, and a pretty good bike/elliptical workout at the gym.  While I have good days and bad days, today my heel is feeling good, which is encouraging.

Additionally, I focused hard on nutrition early in the week, and was rewarded on Thursday morning with a number on the scale that I have not seen since Dec 2009!  I’ve definitely fallen a bit off the wagon since and done a little too much eating this weekend, so I will have some work to do to get back to that point, let alone lose the remaining 5 that is in my goal.  However, I’m really pleased I was able to get to that number, and know I’ll be back there again soon.

I’m concerned about this week because it promises to be really busy at work, with my Mon-Thurs almost wall-to-wall with meetings, and the added stress will make it harder to eat properly.  But the silver lining is that my wife and I will be taking a road trip next weekend, starting Thurs night, just not to Asheville as originally planned.  Instead, we’ll be going to Jacksonville, FL, and looking forward to it!

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Maybe it’s not my age

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09.15.2012

It feels good to be back running again, though I’d be much happier if I was running out in the parks and on the roads.  For now, I’m focusing on interval workouts on the treadmill, with the idea being that the treadmill can precisely dictate the pace. For the first two weeks, I ran four [...]

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