Greg's Running Blog

Today’s training called for a 5.5 mile run at easy pace. And today’s weather called for rain. Lots of it. In the morning I have packed enough gear so I could run either out on the trail or in the gym on a treadmill if the weather turned really nasty. By the time I got to work we had no electricity in the office the storm took the power line down. No electricity means no treadmill either. So mentally I prepared myself for a rainy run in the 40 degree (4 Celsius) weather. But then we got the power back on and I could have used the treadmill.

But I decided to run in the rain. My knee pain has improved and I thought my knee was getting really good. But now my right foot hurts pretty bad from the bad gait that I have been utilizing due to the knee pain. It seems like one injury is causing another. But I went and ran anyway. When I go to work I usually run on a trail. The trail is 2 miles long from the trail head then it follows on as a bike path next to a road. As long as I was running 4 or less miles my run was all on the trail. Now that I’m running longer I have to go out on the road which means camber and it means more beating for my foot and knees. But today I actually wanted to run out on the road as the trail was flooded in several places and my shoes got really wet. Where the standing water was ankle deep I tried to navigate through the rough grass only to scratch my legs up pretty good. The run was cold and wet at the beginning then the rain subdued towards the second half. I ran at a steady pace around 10:20 min/mile. With the changed gait due to the limp my cadence has been staying pretty high, I have averaged 86 again just as on Saturday’s long run.

But sadly the run took its toll on me. Even though I felt good towards the end and I felt the pain was gone it was only temporary. As soon as I got back to the office my foot pain became pretty unbearable. I now have a severe limp and I feel like I can barely walk. If I sit and don’t put weight on it for a while it gets better but as soon as I start walking on it the pain comes back within 50 yards of walking. When the pain gets bad enough it gets better if I walk on the front of my foot and not let the heel touch the ground. The pain is also lessened if I walk bare foot. All in all it’s pretty bad. I think it’s a case of tendonitis of the peroneus longus tendon. Sounds like I’ll be taking a break from running for the next couple of days to give these tendons some time to heal.