After running my intervals last Monday my foot started hurting just in front of the arch. I started fearing that I had a stress fracture. I managed to do my 15 miles long run on Saturday though my foot was hurting, but in his manageable. Last night I was scheduled to do intervals. My schedule was one easy mile, then 1000m interval, then a 2000 m interval, and then two more 1000 m intervals followed by one easy mile. A total of 5.1 miles. Fearing that the intervals would reinjure my foot, I opted to do five easy miles instead. So I ran 5 miles at eight minutes 34 seconds pace. My foot again was a little sore but less sore than it had been before. Following the run, I iced the foot, and took some ibuprofen. Today my foot feels okay. I’m still wondering what I did to the foot. Maybe it was just some sort of bruise in a joint or something. I don’t know. But I have the Boston Marathon in about six weeks, so I want to get my training in, but I also want to be healthy for the race.
I went back and swam at the community center pool for the first time in a long time. I had been involved with the Master swim group for the last six months I think. That session just ended and a new session just started. But at this point I am thinking of discontinuing the master swim group. I am questioning whether I got much out of it. For the most part, I would show up, they would give me a schedule of drills to do. I would swim them with minimal interaction from the coach and then I would leave. I can get swim schedules out of a book or online. I hoped that I would get possibly some one-on-one work to help me improve my swim stroke, but the coaches never got in the water or really helped much with that. So anyway I went back to the community center today and swam for about an hour. I managed to swim about 2650 yards. It felt pretty good. I swam fairly easily, listening to my music, doing freestyle one direction and backstroke the other. I had a lane all to myself for most of the hour then for about the last 15 or 20 minutes shared it with another girl. For the most part sharing a lane wasn’t that bother some, other than occasionally while I was doing backstroke hitting her with my arm lightly or hitting the ropes.
Another benefit of switching from the masters swim program to the community center would be I can train for distances again. And also I can train on different nights that would fit in better with the rest of my training schedule.
I cut my run on Wednesday short because my foot was hurting. I had been scheduled to run 11 miles, and ended up only running three. Today I was scheduled to run 15 miles at eight minute 9 second minute per mile pace. So far, I have run 10 miles at that pace. I still have 5 miles ago. My foot has been sore but manageable. After running 10 miles I iced the foot and also took some ibuprofen. This seem to help a little bit. Then I took a nice hot bath and that actually seem to make my foot feel better. Probably later this evening I’ll go ahead and run my next 5 miles. I am hoping it is not something serious like a stress fracture. But so far today I’ve been running on it and while it has been sore, it hasn’t seem to have gotten worse and actually feels better than it did on Wednesday night. I’m scheduled to do intervals on Monday night, but I might modify that schedule to do an easy run instead. Because it was running intervals that seemed to aggravate my foot in the first place. Maybe the harder pounding of running intervals caused some sort of damage in the foot. So maybe I will lay off the fast intervals until my foot is feeling better.
I was scheduled to run 11 miles last night but I had to cut it off the 3 miles because my foot was hurting I had done intervals on Monday running a total of 6 1/2 miles. And my foot was hurting then I iced it after the run and also took ibuprofen I also iced it on Tuesday and again took more ibuprofen so Wednesday evening for my run my foot was actually feeling halfway decent. I ran the warm-up mile at 8:34 minute/mile pace. Then I started the tempo run part, which was running 10 miles at 7:49 minute/mile pace. My foot started aching very quickly. Where it hurts is along the top near and maybe in front of the arch. I am hoping it is not a stress fracture. I have the Boston Marathon in about seven weeks. I have a ton of training to do. So I can’t really afford an injury. And after the Boston Marathon I have the Lake Placid Ironman in July. If worst comes to worst I will shift the focus of my training towards swimming and cycling to let my foot recuperate.