Running Feet

[cjsmith]

I tried to run today. Running two days in a row is an important test, I told myself.

I got maybe twenty paces before I knew I would have to turn back. I walked and stretched and hopped a little bit, deceiving myself, but I was being foolish and I knew it. I galloped home, putting full weight only on the foot that wasn't currently hurting.

I'm not sure quite how to compare it, but this may mean I have made no progress whatsoever. I couldn't do two days in a row in December, nor can I now.

Ah well. I'll see what the physical therapist makes of this. I'm glad I tried it. If I'm not "cured" I want to know I'm not cured, so I can keep talking to doctors until I am. I hold on to the hope that one day I will run again.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. :( I hope that something can be figured out.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I still have the idea, in the back of my mind, that surgery or killing the nerve would do it. If I were wrong about THAT, then I'd really be annoyed. 1/2 :-)

[ambar.livejournal.com]

What about bicycling as an alternative exercise to running or swimming?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been resisting bicycling and I'm not completely clear on why. It's just as hard on bad knees as running... but then, hey, I already want to run. I know far too many bicyclists with gravel permanently embedded in some part of their bodies... that's part of it, but not all of it. I don't really know why.

Maybe because the most vocal of the serious bicyclists I know personally is a complete @$$hole. Maybe. I don't know.

Picture me waving my hands vaguely, in some semi-frustrated kind of way. :-/

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Darn.

I still think the first day was progress -- when you were here, your feet complained when you *walked*.

Here's hoping one day you WILL run again, and every day.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Well, my feet complained when I walked Saturday, too, because I ran... but hmm, I didn't run when I was in Egypt... Okay, yeah, maybe it is progress. Here's hoping the progress isn't due only to not running. :-)

I shouldn't be so darn melodramatic about it. There's always the kill-the-nerve option. If I need that, I will be able to run afterward, the doctor assures me.

[msmichelle.livejournal.com]

As someone who just "cant run" for exercise, I feel for you. Fight the good fight, but I'm glad your also consulting your PT. L is seeing a PT, finally for his back issues and plantar fas...(sp?) They're actually related pains. And he is an exercise fiend too. I hope this does not keep either one of you down too long.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ooo, plantar fasciitis? Nasty annoying crap that is! Rob had it for over a year. Slept with a brace on and everything. I'm so glad that's finally gone! Good luck to L!

[msmichelle.livejournal.com]

L is sportin' the brace these days too! The boot brace. Good to hear it helped Rob, though.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yep, the boot brace! What helped Rob was an injection of somethingorother ... anti-inflammatory? But they had to try the brace first, I recall.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I'm sorry. I had plantar fasciitis last year and it's only now subsiding (I will NEVER do yoga again, I don't care that I was likely doing it wrong, never never never!). I am able to go to the gym regularly as long as I vary what I do, wear special inserts in my shoes all the time, and do this weird thing with a tennis ball every evening. I feel fortunate that I must have gotten a light case.

I know it's discouraging that it seems you haven't progressed since December. Maybe you have progressed and just slowly? Maybe two days in a row is too much at this stage. I wonder if you might have good results if you separate your runs by two or three days.

I'm glad that surgery remains an option, though I hope it won't be necessary.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, rfrench had plantar fasciitis a while back and I'm really glad I've never had it. Nasty stuff, that.

Maybe you have progressed and just slowly?

I'm hoping so. My PT said the same thing -- it's just too early to run on adjacent days, is all. So I'm going to run a couple of times a week. Slowly. For short distances.

I'm glad that surgery remains an option, though I hope it won't be necessary.

Thanks! My fingers are crossed too... :-)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Sympathies on the setback... that must be so frustrating! Good for you for keeping on pursuing it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! So far, my score is two successful runs in one week. I may try again tomorrow. :-)