A seemingly normal week of training until for some reason, my foot started hurting. Not thrilled about this, but if I can put it behind me really quick and race next week, it won't have much of an impact at all.
Monday: 9 Miles
Ran one of the routes I did the most with a group of all older guys. Was feeling pretty beat up but we went slow so it wasn't too bad. Strides after.
Tuesday: 7 Miles
Track workout. 6x1000 @3:10 w/60s recovery. Did an extra 400m jog between 3 and 4. Felt really nice to take the 600m off (from mile repeats) but I was feeling pretty heavy. Except for #3 solo (everyone's timing was off because I was late as I had class) all of them were smooth. The older guys led so I got into a nice groove behind them. Difficulty: 3/5.
Wednesday: 7 Miles
Foot was hurting walking during the day. Running didn't hurt at all or even feel uncomfortable. Legs were completely trashed though. Aidan started picking up the pace in the second half and I decided not to go with him.
Thursday: 8 Miles
Foot pain got worse walking. Decided to try to run. Felt uncomfortable but didn't hurt much so I went for the full run. Felt really smooth but it started to hurt at mile 4 for a little bit then went away. Short, easy enjoyable loop except for my foot problems.
Friday: 0 Miles
Woke up with the worst foot pain I've had all week, extremely painful to walk to classes. Definitely felt like I couldn't run on it so I took the day off. Pain gradually reduced throughout the day but still remained.
Saturday: 1 Mile
Pain much better than Thursday but still there. Warmed up with the team. Felt like an uncomfortable tightness/soreness but no pain. 25 minutes stationary bike indoors afterwards, 2 minute hard intervals, 1 min easy. Rolled out for a while.
Sunday: 1 Mile
Pain from the previous day had actually pretty much disappeared but foot still felt really awkward/uncomfortable. Did the warm-up again with the team, zero pain or discomfort, actually felt pretty much normal. Same thing as yesterday, on the bike.
Weekly Total: 34 Miles (extra mile somewhere there)
YTD Total: 1,511 Miles
Weekly Highlight: None. This was a pretty bad week.
Weekly Lowlight: Was not expecting to get hurt anytime soon and besides some general heaviness/tightness or the occasional weakness, I had been feeling mostly good this season so this injury really came out of nowhere. I highly doubt it'll affect my season overall, but am worried this will cause me to miss next week's race. Hoping to workout Tuesday, that would be a good sign.
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