Today was supposed to be my first day of (re)training but I'm realizing this foot issue isn't going away. I thought with a break and only doing water exercise instead and being super careful to support my foot and wear good footwear my foot would feel better by now. I don't know if I waited too long and kept training in February and that damaged my foot beyond easy repair but today the same old pain came back as soon as we got started.
To be fare I did run/jog down to training today since I took the bus and had about a half mile of run/job to get to the starting place. I didn't really notice my foot too much and I tried to be extra careful because most of the way was down hill on uneven surface with rocks and ditches and run off drains throughout. I only made it about a half mile in to the actual run with my pace group before I had to turn around and walk back to the beginning.
Totally defeated I've decided there is no way that I'll be able to keep up with training for the half marathon if I don't make all the scheduled trainings. I will most likely switch my entry to doing the 5K or the cumulative marathon and keep working out but not with the 5 days a week of running. I guess part of staying healthy is having a healthy attitude about health and staying healthy and with the constant foot pain, running just really isn't part of keeping myself healthy. Darn foot.
I'm sorry that the foot pain returned. Maybe you could switch to walking for a while? Or how about that race walking like in the Olympics? I've heard that you use your feet differently in each of these activities.
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