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I have been away from the blog for a while. I thought I had some kind of stress fracture back in june, but the X-ray was inconclusive and because it was also found that I had for sure a calcanear spur, the doctor told me to stay away from running for a couple of weeks and go to see him to reevaluate things if and when the swelling of the ankle was gone (not a typical spur presentation). I was good for two weeks not even cross training, I went to see the doctor again and the swelling was gone and we both concluded that was just a "normal" case of subcalcanear spur related plantar fasciitis. Told me I could start running again (there is not much to do about it except for the usual) and doing some "exercises" with a golf ball, rolling it under the trigger point and see what happens. I was advised, in this order, to iced it whenever I need it, then FANS or just quit running more simply. The last resort would be "shock-wave treatement" and I will start this in the next month or so.

For the last two and a half month I went running and the morning after I was in pain, after one month both feet had the same pain, probably I have a spur under both feet. I felt a little bit down, my feet are almost normal while running, it is just the morning after I am in such painful state that I regretted running the night before, the faster I go more pain I get, running become really a punishment. Right now I just keep trying to keep a minimum mileage, at slow pace, endure whatever pain I have and waiting for the shock-wave treatment. The golf ball exercises improved dramatically the situation in my right foot (the first one to be in pain) but didn't do much for the left. I am hoping for some slow improvements on that side too.

I felt bad because I wasted two good months of light and already running at 8pm is becoming difficult, because is dark. The only "positive" thing is that between pain and lack of exercise I lost my appetite and my weight went down to 69kg (from 71) something I didn't see in 10 years.

My run tonight was a little bit longer 7,5 miles in 1:08 something.

7.5 miles at slow pace, my garmin after a faithful service for exactly 4 long years decided to started dying for no apparent reason. Hard reset, soft reset it would come back up and the die again. I started shopping around and I would really buy the 205 or the 305 model but they seem hard to find. I will keep looking.

This morning my garmin was still doing the same show, I will give it a few more tests in the next few days and then I will sacrifice it on a holy fire to the gods of running. Nothing special about today's run. Tomorrow I will attempt my first "race" in a while to see if I can do 13k under 8min/mile and see whether my legs and my feet can take this kind of stress.

There should and electromagnetic storm around me because when I was trying to drive home my car decided not too start, I was on top of a short hill and it was easy to jump start the car and managed to drive home. It is probably the battery, monday I will deal with that.