When your feet don’t play the game.
2 min readThis week I have been forced to, well chosen to make an alteration to my marathon training due my foot not wanting to play the game. After my run last Sunday I spent the day with my family at the beach, the weather was perfect spring time weather and I spent a few hours playing in the water with my son. Hard to believe you can get injured playing with you family at the beach, but I think I did.
I’ve no idea what happened but by Monday there was pain in the top of my left foot. I didn’t think much of it and thought it would go away, on Tuesday I went for my run and the pain became a little worse afterwards and through the day. It’s not an excruciating pain and won’t stop me running but its enough to make me think I should stop running for a day or two. I decided not to do my aerobic run yesterday with every intention of running this morning when I woke up except the pain is still there and it’s raining. So I didn’t run.
I’ve made the choice to take a couple days off and start my taper early. It certainly won’t stop me running my marathon in less than a fortnights time and I don’t believe the time off running this week will have any effect on my race performance. Just annoying enough to keep me sidelined for a little bit.
I am sorry to hear that your your foot is hurt. I agree though that the extra couple of days won’t affect your training at all. Hope it feels better soon!
It’s ok. Couple of days rest won’t hurt. It won’t affect my running at all
Sometimes the forced extra rest pays off! : )
That’s the plan. I’m not too worried
Totally agree, you’ve got all the training done, rest up and look forward to the race! I do like the fact it was raining was also a factor in you staying in – that would definitely have been the icing on the cake for me 🙂
So sorry you are having to deal with this issue! Hopefully the “early taper” will make your legs that more swift!!
Thanks Grace. No problem, it’ll be fine
Sounds like you will be ready ?. Rest well!
Thanks. I’ll be ready
Definitely a good idea to start your taper slightly early! The last thing you want to do is hurt your foot more when you’re so close to your marathon! Hope it eases soon!
Thanks Michelle. I’m confident it will be fine.
Me too ?
What a bummer, but at this stage I don’t think it will matter missing a couple of days. I have to say I’m really impressed by your feet – you really don’t want to see a picture of mine!!
Thanks Alasdair.
I think you have a good plan. I hope it heals up and acts normally on race day.
Thanks Ralph. It’s looking like it’ll be fine
Here’s to fast healing!
Thanks Pete
Oh that is annoying! How high was your mileage and for how long was it that high before the pain started? I am always curious because it seems a lot of injuries crop up right before races and I wonder if it’s in part from beginning to break into the 40+ mileage weeks. I’m training for a marathon too and sort of unintentionally started my taper early because of travel constraints. Worried my mileage didn’t get high enough at its peak, but not much I can do about it now! Good luck to you in your race though and hope your foot feels better
Mileage has been 40+ for the past few weeks leading up to the foot getting hurt. I don’t blame the mileage as I’ve ran higher mileage in other preparations before. I think it will be ok by the race though
I’ve found little aches often seem to sort themselves out ☺️