Walking the Day Away

everyday has become walk at work day for me

     I hate that its harder to get back on track since having my foot surgery than it was after having my mini me.  I have missed my runs SO much.  My boss and I have started walking everyday at work.  She felt bad that I was ready to run my 5K, so with the help of mapmyrun.com, we found a walking path around our campus that is the equivalent distance of a 5K.  In the past week, I have logged close to 15 miles, and the more we do, the better my foot feels.  Now that I can fit it back into a tennis shoe, it's been great.  I think the tennis shoe has actually helped in reducing the swelling, it seems to be better after wearing them...but, I'm not a doctor so who knows.
     I took my walking success from last week and decided to try and jump back into my cardio Pilate's workout.  That may have been a bit ambitious still.  First of all, I was so afraid of pushing too hard and hurting my foot that I modified my moves (not really on purpose, more unconsciously) and ended up fairly sore, but this could also be because secondly the leg with the "boo boo foot" hasn't had the same amount of use in the past month as the other leg; the poor "oh dear God she is hopping around on me again instead of using her crutches" leg.  I completed the standing portion of the workout and my "boo boo foot" leg had the quivering muscle thing.  The one that proves to you that it has been too long since you had worked it quiver.  I stretched to cool down some, did a leisurely walk around the block with the family and felt the pain of under usage the next day (and the day after that).  It made me sad too that I still can't bend my toe enough yet to do certain moves, such as plank pose, and releves.  I know it takes time, but geez louise, how much more?!??!
     Okay, rant over.  I am glad to be up and moving at least and working up a sweat with the walks.  I think that with my sneakers on, I may even be able to try to get a run in on the treadmill.  I will see what I can work into the schedule, since we are on this walking kick at work....a run needs to be done on my time at home and with our split work schedules this summer so the girls don't need daycare, it's harder to do sometimes.  I will try my best though...walking is nice, but I need to run!  My inner Forest Gump is crying each day I don't!

Dissed Dash

     It is with a sad heart that I report that I will not be running in this weekends Dash for Dignity 5K as planned. You may remember my happy post about finding this 5K like a sign from the Heavens that I was supposed to push myself to be ready, but after seeing the podiatrist today, it seems that I have to delay my dash. 
     About a year ago I was playing indoor soccer.  My hubby and I were on a team and loved playing but it got to be too hard with the little one so we are on sabbatical right now...anyways, I digress.  We were playing one of the last games of the session and I took a hit that left me thinking I had broken my big toe.  I couldn't walk on it, or even put any weight on it for a while.  I iced it and hobble for a few days then it started to feel better, so I forgot about it.  A few months later I was doing P90X with my husband and when we got to the plyometric workout I thought my foot was going to fall off the pain was so bad.  It was localized however to one part of my foot and felt slightly better once I took my trainers off.  This went on for a while, then I moved on from the P90X because my boss and I strated to workout in the mornings.
    Fast forward another few months, and we are A-OK.  Then one day, sporting my fav boots I got that same shooting pain through my foot again.  Took off the boots, felt much better.  Tried Insanity with the hubs, did some jumping...not  good.  Finally two weeks ago I subbed in on another soccer team for an indoor game and got a whack to the toe that rivaled the first one and I was hurting.  I iced the foot and called a doctor.  I've been OK while running, but any kind of jumping or walking in heels too long, even walking the hill at work in certain shoes has been aggravating it lately.  SO today I saw the doc.

     He took some x-rays and it seems that there is a very high chance that the initial injury caused a stress fracture in my metatarsal.  The x-rays show some abnormalities in the joint and that's what he feels it could be.  He taped me up to try and alleviate the pain and I have ton go back on later this week.  If the taping doesn't help, or perhaps even if it does, he talked about getting a bone scan done to see the actual damage to the bone that the x-ray angles don't show.  He said to keep working out as usual and to actually try and do all the things that have really aggravated my foot lately to see if it being taped in this position helps.  As of right now, the taping is making it feel worse.  Well, not worse, but the pain is more continuous.  My guess is because I have been overcompensating for the pain before and now that it is in the correct position it's painful...especially since the bones are not quite the way they should be.  With how my foot feels right now, I don't feel confident running this weekend.  But fear not readers...as this blog is about not WAITing and delaying my goals...I have already done some research and found another 5K in my neighborhood that is in a month.  That gives me time to get used to my corrected foot and still train to be really ready. Barring the doc saying NO or having to have surgery or something...I am sure that the June 5K will be great!