Foot pain & a cancelled race

Last week I ran for 45 minutes straight, which was awesome. I could have gone longer but decided to stop since I normally only go 30. The next day my foot was killing me. I could barely put weight on it. It looked normal, but I was worried that maybe I had a stress fracture. The following day it felt a little better but was swollen where it hurt (on the outside under my ankle bone) & a little discolored. That was day before yesterday & it’s almost back to normal now.* Today we had hoped to run a 5k at The Homestead Resort, but it was cancelled. We decided just to run our normal 3.6 miles around the neighborhood.

I don’t know whether it was the heat or the fact that we haven’t run since Tuesday, but we both felt awful. My foot held up ok although it’s a little sore now. We ended up cutting the run short because we felt so crummy. I’ve had another killer migraine all day & Phil is getting sick. We were talking about running a race Monday morning but honestly I don’t know if we will be up to it. I hope so.

*I told Phil I must be a “real runner” now since I was contemplating whether I could run on a foot that I could barely walk on.