I think I may have a slight case of plantar fascitis- which is an inflamation of the tissue that connects my heel to the base of my toes. Yesterday morning I stepped on a ‘goathead’  and it dug in pretty deep. I pulled it out and it bled pretty good. Blech! I couldnt tell if part had broken off inside my foot or not but it really hurt the rest of the day. But we had to pick up my relatives at the airport and I ended up walking a fair amount since we arrived early. I had been babying the area of my foot where I had stepped on the goathead  and I think I gave myself a bit of plantar fasciitis by doing so. I ignored it and went out for my run, it was supposed to be 8 miles but after 3 I really couldnt take it anymore. I iced it when I got home and then I asked a few runner friends what they suggested. The answeres I got were lots of deep hard massage, and rolling my foot on a frozen can of juice, or rolling a frozen golfball with my foot. Ive already tried the massage with a frozen golfball and it did help for a little while. I was on my feet alot afterwards though. I needed tog et some work done. Normally I would try to make up the rest of the run I missed but Im just going to try and stay off my feet for a while.

Posted by Shelley in Whatever on March 18th, 2007 |