Injury doldrums!

I am sorry that I have gone missing in action since the Boston Marathon and my thanks to Eddie and Scott for giving me a push along to get back on the blogging scene. I have been in the injury doldrums since Boston and frankly haven't really felt like blogging.

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I had thought I had got through Boston injury free. Unfortunately, that didn't prove to be the case. On the night of the Boston Marathon my left foot came up very sore but then after a couple of Voltaren seemed to settle down rapidly and didn't give me any grief for a week or so after the race. But gradually with my return to running the pain also came back. I went to my sports doctor and she suspected stress fractures to the navicular bone on the top of the left foot. A bone scan cleared me of any stress fractures but the pain was still there more or less - sometimes I felt it, sometimes I didn't.

Last Sunday I went for a run up and over the top of one of my regular haunts, Mt Taylor. Strangely, I didn't feel any pain going up the mountain. On the downside, however, my foot caused me real agony and I could barely walk. I was reduced to hobbling back to the car pack.

Today, even with no running, my foot still hurt. I have now decided to stop running completely until this thing - whatever it is - heals. The pain of not running hurts as much as the hurt itself but I know it is for the best. I will take my medicine and return a much fitter and healthier runner. Many others have gone through far worse than what I have got.

I have a great physio who I have much confidence in and I will again work with him closely to deal with this latest set back. As always I will stay positive, hit the pool and the bike big time, and come back ready to zoom.

As for my blogging, I will see how I feel. I will try and catch up with my blog reading as much as I can. But I think my mind needs as much of a rest as does my sore left foot. I think of all of my friends in the blog world often. I won't forget you.