Arie's Running Blog

6:30AM 67F, 60% humidity. Finished the cut back week with a shorter long run. The first 2-3 miles were an effort. They are hilly but beyond the terrain there is also the fact that my body is not warm yet. The cooler weather was great. It started to rain toward the end. The pace was really good (7:47 average)

1:05:48

6:30AM, 66F, 75% humidity. Weather has been good to us here in the south east. My speed has improved a bit and it was also the cut back week that helped. I did 8:02 on average where the second half was under 8:00.

My left foot really hurts. I'm not familiar with the English terms for the different body parts and muscles. The upper part of the foot close to where it connects with he leg hurts. I had something similar with a previous Brooks shoe. I think it's an issue with how they tie. It hurts more on the down slopes and on flat surface and much less on up hills. It was the first time I enjoyed the up hills :-) Icing it helps some.

0:46:37

My wife and I watched the Olympics on NBClast. I ended up going to bed close to midnight but Wow! what an amazing 4X100m relay swim! What a drama. The victory over the French was so sweat. The determination of these swimmers is really inspirational.

9:30AM, 74F 60%humidity. Weather has been amazing in the last 3 days. Running felt so much better this morning. I did 4 loops on Duke's East Campus. Each loop is 1.65M and I did them in 12:54, 12:35, 12:43, 12:32 (in per mile terms: 7:49, 7:38, 7:42, 7:36). Heat and especially humidity has such a negative effect on me.

0:50:43

I'm still suffering from a pain in my upper left foot. It's sort of close to where I tie the laces. I so much hope it's not a stress or overuse related injury! I usually hurts a lot in the first 1-2 miles and then not so much after that.

9:30AM, 67F, 70% humidity. Can you believe it? 67F in the middle of August? What's going on with the weather? It must be due to this global cooling that everyone is talking about.

 Anyway, the run was easy and pleasant (8:14 pace which felt very easy). I still have this pain in the upper part of my left foot. I'm afraid it is some kind of tendonitis related to the tendon which goes on the top of the foot (and whose name I don't know). 600mg of Ibuprofen take care of the pain after the run. Also the first 2 miles are more painful than the rest of the run. I really don't know what to do. Should I stop running till it goes away? Any advise will be appreciated.

0:47:44

9:30AM 72F, 65%. Not bad weather for this time of the year. I was supposed to do 7M with 5M tempo in them today but my left foot still hurts quite a bit. I didn't want to agrevate it. I did 5 mile over all and just 3.3M tempo in them. I did one mile warm up at 8:45 and my foot was hurting. So I went on and did just 3.3 miles at 7:15 average pace. Itas a really good effort. Then I colled down with 0.7M at 8:30 pace. I hate to do less than planed but I think that I had to. Over all I think my left foot is getting better. It may be just a bruise from tying the shoe too tight. I will experiment with different tying techniques. I also might try to run with my previous pair tomorrow and see how it goes. 

0:38:46

No running today. I decided to let my foot rest an additional day. I am going to rest tomorrow as well and see how it goes on sunday. I hope it's not a stress fracture. I'm really starting to panic. Not running made me feel a bit down this morning but I think it's the right decision.