My foot is getting on my nerves. It itched like hell yesterday and today it's aching. If I touch the part that has the fracture it feels quite tender... much more than before. Maybe it's the healing process and now that I am finally resting it properly and not even walking unless I have to, maybe this is a stage it has to go through? I don't know!!!
I read that a runner can quite often be very sceptical when told they have a stress fracture due to the (sometimes) lack of severity when it comes to pain. I can relate to that, although today it feels broken!!! Knowing how I sort of breezed through the march fracture in my Navy days also gives me food for thought. I'm very glad I phoned the podiatrist when I did or who knows how bad it could have got.
Anyway, the cavalry (William and Shaun) are going to put something together exercise wise and get me through the next 3 weeks, and I am going to attempt Llanelli. If it all goes pear shaped I know to stop and not make matters worse. I can be sensible about these things you know! ;-) It does feel good to at least try to do it and not have a defeatist attitude about the whole thing. The race director knows the score and seems happy that I'm still entering and I'm looking forward to meeting some people there who I've previously only known online. To my surprise, when I told Graeme my plans to still do it, he was really chuffed. It seems he really is looking forward to supporting me in my ultras as much as he says... Bless him!
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