Time To Stop Counting Chickens...

I suppose I should have suspected it was coming - a few weeks of relatively pain free running is almost inevitably followed by some problem or other - or at least thats generally the way it goes for me.

Sunday should have been a relatively perfunctory 14 miles (in that statement alone we can see some progress - 14 mile? perfunctory?!). Only slightly thrown by the clocks changing I set off with a new route previously mapped out via MapMyRun.

At about 3 miles the first hints were there - a slightly stiff right foot, must have slept on it funny. I quite often slide too far down the bed pushing my feet between matress and bed frame.

At about 9 miles, my first stop - well a pause really - maybe my laces were too tight. That's the most common cause of unexplained foot pain in runners - or so I had read somewhere and was now persuading myself that this was the issue. Sadly no instant pain relief.

At 11 miles it was now becoming a problem. This was serious discomfort. I kept going in a stop start manner for another 2 miles before then (of course) finding myself at a decent distance from home finally gave up and walked the last two miles.

The pain is across the top of my right foot at the point where the foot bends. I must assume that it is in someway connected to the previous issue that I had treatment for except that there is no pain or discomfort in the previously problem area. I am still clinging to the hope that it's just the result of a night lying in an odd position. However, Monday morning finds my foot/ankle swollen and with what looks like a bruise coming - hmmm - maybe I slept funny again.

I have had my foot resting on an upturned bin for most of the morning which seems to be helping a little but it maybe time to crack out the emergency last few weeks schedule especially with the prospect of another 20 mile run looming this coming weekend.

Right now I am not overly concerned - but I guess it shows that getting to and around this marathon is not yet a fore gone conclusion