Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on November 17th, 2007 in Injury, Training
I went out for what was supposed to be a 14-mile run on Sunday, but after 7-8 miles, my heel started to hurt again. I eased up a bit, but after 8.5 miles, I decided to call it a day and rest it.
I haven’t run the whole week in the hopes that it gets better. It’s feeling fine the majority of the time, but sometimes I do notice some slight discomfort while walking. It’s not like it was during the week where I could barely walk, but I’m a bit paranoid and trying to decide when to try another run.
I’ve been doing a lot of elliptical work this week and I suspect that this may be slowing my recovery time. I didn’t do any yesterday and I’ll avoid doing any this weekend to see if that helps with my recovery.
As of today. my half-marathon on Dec 9th is a up in the air.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on November 10th, 2007 in Cowtown, Marathon, Training
This week didn’t turn out as badly as I thought it would have. My right heel was in such a bad state, I wasn’t expecting to be able to run at all. It turns out that on Monday, my heel felt perfectly fine. I was able to walk normally and there was no pain or discomfort. I have to assume that the combination of rest and the anti-inflammatories did the job. I decided to continue to rest on Monday and see how the heel felt on Tuesday morning since it feels worse in the mornings.
On Tuesday morning, my heel still felt great. I decided to do a 3 mile run in the early afternoon. Again, there was no pain and I was able to run. I had to then travel to Louisville, KY on business that night.
Louisville was cold with the lows around 32-33F. I decided to try a longer run on Wednesday morning. I did 5 miles in the coldest weather I’ve run in since last winter. It was around 35F. My heel continued to feel perfect. It was also very satisfying getting up at 5:30 am to run in that cold weather.
Today, back in TX, I did an easy 4-mile run and since my heel now seems to be healed, I’m planning to resume my full training schedule from tomorrow.
In the end, I only ran 12 miles for the week, but I’ll take that. It’s a lot better than zero miles!
| Day |
Plan |
Actual |
Avg Pace |
Comments |
| Sun |
13 Mi |
|
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| Mon |
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|
|
| Tue |
8 Mi w/ 4 Mi Tempo |
3 Mi |
9:23 |
A short run to see how my heel was feeling |
| Wed |
4 Mi |
5 Mi |
9:51 |
An easy run in Louisville, KY |
| Thu |
10 Mi |
|
|
|
| Fri |
|
|
|
|
| Sat |
4 Mi |
4 Mi |
9:29 |
Heel is still feeling good so I’ll try and resume my training plan on Sunday |
| Total |
39 Mi |
12 Mi |
|
|
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on November 3rd, 2007 in Cowtown, Injury, Marathon, Training
This week has been terrible. As noted in my previous post, I did the 12-mile run on Sunday, but I haven’t been able to run at all since then. The back of my right heel is still in just as much pain as it was on Tuesday.
I decided to go to urgent care yesterday to have it x-rayed just to ensure it wasn’t fractured. After all, my heel has never given me this much trouble and what pain I’ve had there in the past was only if I actually hit in on something accidentally, and even then, that pain would go away after a few mins. The doctor said I had a spur, which I knew (or suspected), but he said he couldn’t tell if it broke off. He said he saw a slight line, but the x-ray needs to be read by a radiologist to be sure. I wouldn’t know the results until some time next week.
For now, I can’t walk without a sever limp and I now find myself hopping a lot to move around.
I’m now taking anti-inflammatories which I started yesterday. I know I should probably have started earlier in the week, but I was convinced the pain was going to go away quickly as it has in the past. My hope is that it will be the only one and I can resume running after that.
For now, I know I can’t run and I suspect this coming week will be the first week ever since I started running that Iwill not log a single mile of running!
| Day |
Plan |
Actual |
Avg Pace |
Comments |
| Sun |
12 Mi |
12 Mi |
10:10 |
Ran for the first 8 miles without walking. For the last 4 miles, I walked 0.1 miles and ran 0.9 miles each mile. |
| Mon |
|
|
|
|
| Tue |
8 Mi w/ 10×100m |
|
|
Didn’t run due to some serious pain on the back of my right heel where the archilles tendon is attached |
| Wed |
|
|
|
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| Thu |
10 Mi |
|
|
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| Fri |
|
|
|
|
| Sat |
5 Mi |
|
|
|
| Total |
35 Mi |
12 Mi |
|
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Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on November 1st, 2007 in Injury
I did a 12-mile run on Sunday and I was fine. On Monday, the back of my right heel felt a little tender, but I was actually used to that. The problem is that since Tuesday, it has been very painful. I can’t even walk properly and flexing my ankle is almost impossible.
This part of my foot has been bothering me on and off, but nothing that has ever prevented me from running. I think I actually have some kind of spur of bone build-up. This is clearly visible. When you look at both heels at the same time, you can see the difference.
That area has always been tender, but the most pain I’ve had was if I accidentally hit it on something, and even then, the pain would go away after 10-15 mins. This time around, it was not hit. It just started to hurt all of a sudden. The mornings are the worse as I assume it gets all stiff from not flexing. Even as I write this, the whole area is pulsating.
It seems that this injury is going to keep me from running for some time. This is really rather frustrating especially since I seemed to have been on a roll with a couple weeks of what I thought was some great running.
