Hot yoga: 60 minutes
Tuesday, 4/8
Rest
Wednesday, 4/9
Yoga: 60 minutes
Thursday, 4/10
Rest
Friday, 4/11
Yoga video: 30 minutes
Saturday, 4/12
Hot yoga: 60 minutes
2.5 miles casual walking
Sunday, 4/15
2 mile run (24 minutes)
30 minutes foam rolling
An excerpt from my brain this weekend:
"Screw everything. The moment I started to feel confident in running, the moment I suddenly realized I had dropped a few pants sizes, the moment I started to excitedly tell people I was running a half marathon in May..."
I think my foot pain is more than I'm making it out to be. After my long run last Sunday, I consulted a friend/physical therapist and she suggested taking a few days off from running/impact. I begrudgingly followed her advice and did nothing but yoga all week. Today I decided it was time to try out running again and did two miles on the treadmill. My foot was 100% fine while I was running, but as soon as I stopped it started to feel weird. First, it felt like my shoe was way too tight, then it just started to mildly hurt all over. I spent about a half hour foam rolling after the run and rolled out my foot a lot. I'm hoping that will help.
I feel extremely upset and deflated over this. I'm nervous because I've felt similar pain before in my feet from running. I don't know what to do. My half marathon is in 6 weeks and I know if I take a few weeks off from activity I will not be able to do it. I don't know if I'm feeling ACTUAL pain or if I'm just being hypersensitive and making normal aches out to be something bigger. I don't know if I should go see a doctor or if I should just ignore it. I don't feel pain at all while running and I feel like I should just suck it up so I can run my race, but I'm nervous about making it worse and doing serious damage to my foot. I don't understand how this is happening. I spent a long time building up my fitness before training and I wasn't even running that much! I bought new shoes, I've been stretching a lot, I've been keeping up with my strength training. Why is this happening???
Unfortunately my negative emotions fueled some pretty bad eating this weekend. I ate out too often and spent a lot of time snacking while watching TV. Anytime that little voice came into my head asking if I really wanted to eat that, I quickly shut it off. I don't know how this "all or nothing" attitude still exists in my mind. My brain was basically saying all weekend, "well, you can't run and you're not going to be able to do the half marathon, so you might as well fill your body with shit food and sabotage 6 months of hard work!"
Every time I write a post like this I stop and consider deleting it. I feel like such a drama queen spewing my #firstworldproblems into the interwebs. I'm well aware that my potential inability to run this half marathon because of a foot injury is minuscule in comparison to the many problems faced it the world, and yet, I can't help but feel like I'm going to burst into tears at a moment's notice.
So the point of the post was to get all of my crazy emotions down on the page so I can make a plan and move forward. I need to remember what my priorities are:
1. Lose weight
2. Develop long term healthy habits
3. Live a consistently active lifestyle
I need to focus on #1, and I can do that with or without running. Yes, running is a huge help in my weight loss efforts (I truly believe nothing can transform my body like running), but I CAN do it without it. To do this I need to get immediately back on track with healthy eating and figure out ways to incorporate more non-running, low impact exercise into my week. Here's what I plan to do:
Monday: Hot yoga
Tuesday: Total Body Strength (take it easy on any jumping, etc)
Wednesday: Yoga
Thursday: Rest
Friday: 2 mile run
Saturday: Hot yoga
Sunday: Rest or long run if foot is fine
I want to run this half marathon. I can't believe I'm saying that since I was hesitant and nervous for so long. I've been enjoying training and seeing my progress. I don't want to stop now. I'm hoping taking it easy for another few days will help. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
Jul - so sorry you're dealing with this. I would definitely make an appointment to see an orthopedist. A few years ago I was having pain in my left foot but pretty much ignored it and kept working out. Eventually, when it got so bad and I went to the doctor, I found out I had a hairline fracture that I was worsening by continuing to exercise. I wound up having to take 8 weeks off of impact activities (I could still do bike, elliptical, etc). I don't want to scare you!!! But I would just go if you can so at least you can rule out any sort of break or fracture.
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