This weekend I completed my 2nd 20 mile training run and finished it a full 30 minutes faster than last weekend - whoopee! Good lord, I hope I haven't peaked too early. It was a fantastic run for me despite the semi-discomfort of spending all four hours of it in the rain. I felt really good for the most of the way, ran most of the hills at the end of the Seattle marathon course and have now run about 85% of the total course. The kind folks at the ProClub who support the runs seem to think I'm ready. I felt ready until visiting the physical therapist today.
Turns out the nagging pain in one of the toe joints on my right foot for the last couple of weeks is a bone bruise. ERHG! Luckily he said I should be able to run and that I won't do any lasting damage by running on it so I'm taking that as an 'all clear'. We may have found a cause...a little nub on the bottom of my shoe which I'll surgically remove with an Exacto knife. Bizarre but it happens to fall at exactly the joint where the bruise is and the sole material that the nub (a little design/logo bit in the sole pattern) is made of is a harder material than the rest of the sole.
So I'll shift my training schedule to add an additional day of rest between long and longish runs, do some shoe surgery and hopefully things will get better. Apparently it can take up to 6 months to heal fully so I guess I'll have an excuse to wear the same comfy shoes to work every day for a while!
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