AHF - I run: injury

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

My foot hurts

I dont know whats wrong with my left foot, but it absolutely kills.

It suddenly started hurting walking the dog Sunday night. I went for 6 miler across the fields on Monday night and it was excruciating

Its the underside of my foot, towards the inside - kind of in between the ball of my foot and the arch. I usually do a gentle-ish 3 miler on the roads on a Wednesday night ahead of the tough hill session Thursday.

Might have to do a session on the turbo-trainer and then stick my foot in a bucket of water for an hour and hope that helps.

These damn little aches and pain. We all get them, but they dont stop being a pain (pun intended).

Alex

I'm 22, based in Preston.

I run to train. train to get fit. Get fit to race.

As with most runners, it's a love hate relationship with putting one foot infront of the other. The physical pain and suffering, the fatigue before, during and after, the mental torture which is linked with the physical suffered, and just longing for it to be over. And yet we do it again. And again. We hate it and yet we love it.

Maybe it's the pint in the pub at the end that does it, or when the work colleagues ask "what did you get up to this weekend"...."oh I ran up "x" in the Lakes.

I don't know. All I do know is that I love it, I hate it, but I keep doing it.