It is actually a good summary of the pain I’ve had for months. Pain on the top of the foot (yup!), swelling on the top of the foot (yup!) and pain along the top of the foot which is worse during running (yes). I have no idea what it means to ‘passively stretch’ a tendon so I very when could have pain with that too.
Basically I’m going to rest it and stop running for a while. Maybe some treadmill (even footing) running in a couple of days.
Before the foot flare up, I did get in some decent workouts.
Saturday: 8 miles. I think this is what set it off. I was running on compacted snow which is a different surface than usual. Bummer.
Sunday: 1 hour elliptical and body pump. Later that night, I caught some ice while I was walking home from a fun running group holiday party (yah!) and although I didn’t biff it completely, I stressed my foot and I noticed some acute pain and swelling. Crap.
Monday: 7 mile run. This was stupid. And denial at it’s best. Step one is always denial. My foot hurt (no surprise). I also did some upper body strength stuff and freaking out to my mom on the phone. It was NYE but since I am who I am, I did not have plans to wear high heals. Phew.
Tuesday: 60 minute elliptical and swimming. My foot feels fine when I’m not running. And I actually really like the elliptical. And by really like I mean can tolerate.
Wednesday: Spinning and abs.
Thursday: 60 minute elliptical sesh. Arm strength and some hip strengthening stuff.
Friday: Elliptical long enough to get sweaty, swimming and water jogging. I HATE BEING COLD and cannot convince myself to get into a pool unless I’m warm.
Saturday: Long-run elliptical simulation. Let’s call this LRES. Sounds all futuristic and cool. And like a real thing that exists beyond the mind of Emily. I am technically registered for a half marathon at the end of January. I’m not totally convinced I can’t run it (step one is always denial…). Plus ellipticals ain’t that bad. Except that they require I go to my CRAZY busy gym on a Saturday morning. This is a terrifying experience all year round and a million times worse in January. 90 minutes elliptical and 30 minutes stretching.
Sunday: 15 minutes stair climber and body pump.
You’ll notice a pattern. Lots of elliptical. It doesn’t bother my foot at all or cause any pain elsewhere in my body. Ellipticals are what I used in the past when I can’t run but want to maintain fitness. Also, I’ll be swimming and water jogging. I’m also going to focus on building some strength, particularly in my lower back and hips. Oh and really focus on stretching and foam rolling. I would say I will do yoga but that would be a lie because I don’t like yoga and the yoga at my gym is 90 minutes which is freakishing long. Cue everyone telling me to do yoga. Tell me all you want. Yoga makes me incredibility anxious and bored. When I’m anxious and bored I like to eat or play the coulda-shoulda game about my life in my head. When I’m in a boring 90-FREAKING-minute yoga class all I think about is food or my inability to relax or all the things I should do differently. So I convince myself I am starving and a failure. This is a prime example of me being a nutcase. The trigger is yoga. No yoga = no anxiousness. I do like stretching. By myself for thirty freaking minutes.
That is the plan, Sam.
Any thoughts on my foot? No? Me either.
Xoxo,
Emily
Weekly workout recap
January 7, 2013 by Emily
Howdy. THANK YOU for your kind comments on my last post. So far 2013 has been pretty okay.
I’m going to try to get back into regular blogging. We’ll see.
First with a weekly workout recap.
So I’m not running. That foot problem that dates way back to marathon training is back. And worse. I think it is extensor tendonitis. I can’t afford a doctor at the moment SO google MD is the best I can do. I am still paying off the bills from the last time I asked a real live doctor about this foot. I got an X-ray because the Dr. freaked out (those are pricy) and since there is nothing to show on an X-ray, the doctor tried to freak me out into an MRI. Nope. Useless since I’m almost certain it isn’t a stress fracture and those really cost money. MRIs are stupid. So are doctors that try to scare you into getting them. Extensor tendonitis seems like it fits my problems.
Here is a summary from the link above:
It is actually a good summary of the pain I’ve had for months. Pain on the top of the foot (yup!), swelling on the top of the foot (yup!) and pain along the top of the foot which is worse during running (yes). I have no idea what it means to ‘passively stretch’ a tendon so I very when could have pain with that too.
Basically I’m going to rest it and stop running for a while. Maybe some treadmill (even footing) running in a couple of days.
Before the foot flare up, I did get in some decent workouts.
Saturday: 8 miles. I think this is what set it off. I was running on compacted snow which is a different surface than usual. Bummer.
Sunday: 1 hour elliptical and body pump. Later that night, I caught some ice while I was walking home from a fun running group holiday party (yah!) and although I didn’t biff it completely, I stressed my foot and I noticed some acute pain and swelling. Crap.
Monday: 7 mile run. This was stupid. And denial at it’s best. Step one is always denial. My foot hurt (no surprise). I also did some upper body strength stuff and freaking out to my mom on the phone. It was NYE but since I am who I am, I did not have plans to wear high heals. Phew.
Tuesday: 60 minute elliptical and swimming. My foot feels fine when I’m not running. And I actually really like the elliptical. And by really like I mean can tolerate.
Wednesday: Spinning and abs.
Thursday: 60 minute elliptical sesh. Arm strength and some hip strengthening stuff.
Friday: Elliptical long enough to get sweaty, swimming and water jogging. I HATE BEING COLD and cannot convince myself to get into a pool unless I’m warm.
Saturday: Long-run elliptical simulation. Let’s call this LRES. Sounds all futuristic and cool. And like a real thing that exists beyond the mind of Emily. I am technically registered for a half marathon at the end of January. I’m not totally convinced I can’t run it (step one is always denial…). Plus ellipticals ain’t that bad. Except that they require I go to my CRAZY busy gym on a Saturday morning. This is a terrifying experience all year round and a million times worse in January. 90 minutes elliptical and 30 minutes stretching.
Sunday: 15 minutes stair climber and body pump.
You’ll notice a pattern. Lots of elliptical. It doesn’t bother my foot at all or cause any pain elsewhere in my body. Ellipticals are what I used in the past when I can’t run but want to maintain fitness. Also, I’ll be swimming and water jogging. I’m also going to focus on building some strength, particularly in my lower back and hips. Oh and really focus on stretching and foam rolling. I would say I will do yoga but that would be a lie because I don’t like yoga and the yoga at my gym is 90 minutes which is freakishing long. Cue everyone telling me to do yoga. Tell me all you want. Yoga makes me incredibility anxious and bored. When I’m anxious and bored I like to eat or play the coulda-shoulda game about my life in my head. When I’m in a boring 90-FREAKING-minute yoga class all I think about is food or my inability to relax or all the things I should do differently. So I convince myself I am starving and a failure. This is a prime example of me being a nutcase. The trigger is yoga. No yoga = no anxiousness. I do like stretching. By myself for thirty freaking minutes.
That is the plan, Sam.
Any thoughts on my foot? No? Me either.
Xoxo,
Emily
It is actually a good summary of the pain I’ve had for months. Pain on the top of the foot (yup!), swelling on the top of the foot (yup!) and pain along the top of the foot which is worse during running (yes). I have no idea what it means to ‘passively stretch’ a tendon so I very when could have pain with that too.
Basically I’m going to rest it and stop running for a while. Maybe some treadmill (even footing) running in a couple of days.
Before the foot flare up, I did get in some decent workouts.
Saturday: 8 miles. I think this is what set it off. I was running on compacted snow which is a different surface than usual. Bummer.
Sunday: 1 hour elliptical and body pump. Later that night, I caught some ice while I was walking home from a fun running group holiday party (yah!) and although I didn’t biff it completely, I stressed my foot and I noticed some acute pain and swelling. Crap.
Monday: 7 mile run. This was stupid. And denial at it’s best. Step one is always denial. My foot hurt (no surprise). I also did some upper body strength stuff and freaking out to my mom on the phone. It was NYE but since I am who I am, I did not have plans to wear high heals. Phew.
Tuesday: 60 minute elliptical and swimming. My foot feels fine when I’m not running. And I actually really like the elliptical. And by really like I mean can tolerate.
Wednesday: Spinning and abs.
Thursday: 60 minute elliptical sesh. Arm strength and some hip strengthening stuff.
Friday: Elliptical long enough to get sweaty, swimming and water jogging. I HATE BEING COLD and cannot convince myself to get into a pool unless I’m warm.
Saturday: Long-run elliptical simulation. Let’s call this LRES. Sounds all futuristic and cool. And like a real thing that exists beyond the mind of Emily. I am technically registered for a half marathon at the end of January. I’m not totally convinced I can’t run it (step one is always denial…). Plus ellipticals ain’t that bad. Except that they require I go to my CRAZY busy gym on a Saturday morning. This is a terrifying experience all year round and a million times worse in January. 90 minutes elliptical and 30 minutes stretching.
Sunday: 15 minutes stair climber and body pump.
You’ll notice a pattern. Lots of elliptical. It doesn’t bother my foot at all or cause any pain elsewhere in my body. Ellipticals are what I used in the past when I can’t run but want to maintain fitness. Also, I’ll be swimming and water jogging. I’m also going to focus on building some strength, particularly in my lower back and hips. Oh and really focus on stretching and foam rolling. I would say I will do yoga but that would be a lie because I don’t like yoga and the yoga at my gym is 90 minutes which is freakishing long. Cue everyone telling me to do yoga. Tell me all you want. Yoga makes me incredibility anxious and bored. When I’m anxious and bored I like to eat or play the coulda-shoulda game about my life in my head. When I’m in a boring 90-FREAKING-minute yoga class all I think about is food or my inability to relax or all the things I should do differently. So I convince myself I am starving and a failure. This is a prime example of me being a nutcase. The trigger is yoga. No yoga = no anxiousness. I do like stretching. By myself for thirty freaking minutes.
That is the plan, Sam.
Any thoughts on my foot? No? Me either.
Xoxo,
Emily
I will NOT tell you to do yoga because the exact same thing happens to me during yoga classes hahahaha. I will say ice, stretch, foam roll, and swim though
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I’m bummed about your foot but glad you have some sort of an answer. At least you can tolerate the elliptical too, that makes life easier!
I think during my 6 week injury a couple years ago I convinced myself to learn to love the elliptical. I’m glad I still don’t mind it!
Hey! Looks like we go to the same doctor! Google MD is my go-to, though I’m impressed you effectively did not diagnose yourself with a stress fracture, as that’s usually my conclusion. (I do, for what it’s worth, try to stick only to government websites and the Mayo Clinic when it comes to Googling symptoms though, because at least those should be somewhat reliable…right? Right.)
And hey, if the elliptical works for you, then keep doin’ what you’re doin’. If it bugged your foot I’d look into something else, but if it’s not I don’t see why you should have to try to find another alternative, especially if you like what you’re doing!
I think the Mayo Clinic website is totally the same as a doctor!
I like to do the 20 minute yoga podcasts from YogaDownload.com. They are free which is pretty much mandatory for me. Yoga for Runners is my fav. I have to be in the right mood for yoga, but the 20 minutes is much more manageable for me. But if you aren’t into it, I say it’s not worth it. I think you can get the same benefit from stretching.
I do like those 20 minute podcasts! I totally forgot about them!
sorry about your foot, lady! Good that you’re paying attention to the pain and not doing anything to hurt/prolong the injury though! I think running on snow may have also tweaked me Achilles – so annoying! Never thought of that during the run, dammit. And haha, I would say go ahead and avoid the yoga then…
I didn’t think about the snow during my run either! It didn’t even cross my mind that it would but tension on different areas of my body! Boo!!
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