In order to maintain\u00a0my best in terms of physical fitness,\u00a0I have to take a break every now and then. I usually wait till my sister and I go on a trip to take time off from running\/weight training, but because of a stupid family squabble she and I haven’t taken a trip since early last November, and therefore I haven’t taken a break from running since then. \u00a0That’s\u00a0apparently too long for me to go without a break.\u00a0My body is really feeling it, but I’ve stubbornly pushed myself in the misguided belief that she and I will be going away somewhere very soon and I’ll wait till that happens to take a break from my fitness routines. In the meantime, my runs take longer,\u00a0are more strenuous, less enjoyable, and I haven’t been able to pursue barefoot running\u00a0much in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n
The TOFP that plagued me\u00a0for the past\u00a0few weeks is still bothering me. (I’m not sure if it was caused by the dreaded TMTS or by sprinting the last couple of minutes of my runs, could’ve been either.) I cut my running miles a little bit in concession, and I did buy a little cushion that gets taped to the bottom of the ball of the foot and have been using that, but the pain persists. During the first of the 2 weeks chronicled here I was able to run a whopping 1 mile out of 17.6 barefoot, but I really felt that the barefoot running was exacerbating the original issue and thought it would be wise to stop. So stop I did, and ran 20.7 miles the next week, none of them barefoot. At one point I thought the TOFP itself was changing, it felt more like a pain you feel when something is healing rather than an “ouch, something is wrong”\u00a0pain. Also feel minor pain in the heel of my other foot, but it comes and goes and doesn’t feel serious.<\/p>\n
I’ve been doing a lot more walking around at home and outside barefoot in the hopes of nudging my wayward foot back into strength and health. I’m determined to return to pain-free\u00a0barefoot running sometime soon, and can’t wait to increase my barefoot mileage. In the meantime I’ll trudge on, with shoes, and hope for fixed feet and family affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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