Thursday, March 3, 2011

my poor feet

I'm in pain. Lots and lots of pain. Beyond the pain I'm just flat out frustrated. Starting in December I began having this nagging pain in my achilles. It started on my right foot and was a pain that was completely out of the blue. Thinking that it was probably a combination of spending all day the day before in new boots and the fact that I was in desperate need of new shoes I wasn't too concerned about it. Later that week I went to the store and bought new shoes. I bought the same shoes I have been running in for years just the new model. I wore them once. It was awful. The shoe completely bruised the bone on the side of my right foot. I knew I had to take them back but since I had never run in anything else I was at a loss as to what to buy. I asked the people at the local running store and they put me in another shoe. I took it home and started running in it. It seemed okay, not my favorite but fine. I went out for a 20 mile run two weeks ago and came back with two bruised baby toes on my right foot. At the same time my left achilles began acting up. I started switching off between my new shoes and my vibram five finger shoes hoping that a break from the everyday sneakers would help. It hasn't. Last week my ankle bone began to feel very tender and painful to the touch. Figuring that I bruised it somehow I didn't think much of it. After just an 11.5 mile run on Saturday my feet were shot. With 8 miles on Monday and 9 miles yesterday by the time I got home last night my feet hurt so badly it was all I could stand to walk to the fridge and get some ice and ice them down. Frustrated I went on-line and attempted to find my regular running shoe in an older model. Success. My new (old) shoes will be coming next week. Until then though I'm not sure what to do to take the pain away and make my feet better. My poor poor feet!

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