Old Man Still running

Healing taking place.  I've learned that if I feel daily progress it is unlikely to be a stress fracture which is more a weekly progress thing.   I'm feeling less pain daily, so that is good.  The foot problem is more pain than the leg.   Do I hit the pool to maintain?  I dread doing that.  I used to swin about 3 times per week but I just don't enjoy it anymore.   I guess I'll start looking for my swimming stuff.

Shoes.   Trying to find something good for Across the years, 200 miles on that flat smooth dirt.  I now have Altra Torins that seem to be pretty good.  I've also order that new Hoka model.   Rapa nui. I'll give it a try.  Asked the Altra guys for a demo Olympus but haven't heard back.

Elipical.  Progress.  Able to get the sweat dripping like crazy.  Not feeling any tibia soreness today.  Definite daily improvement.   The painful spot on my forefoot is also calming down.  If I had a 100 coming up, I really wouldn't worry, but this is Across the years, three days of running this time on the same track that caused my big stress fracture in 2012, so nervous about running that far (200+ miles) with any sort of issue.

Figured out the foot problem.  Inflamation of the joint in the ball of the foot to the little toe.  Cause by over-compensating to relieve pressure on the inside of the leg during the R2R2R.  Reading about it, takes time to heal but pain remains pretty low.  To take pressure off it, I simply cut a notch in the insole to give it more room, less pressure, seems to work. I'm no longer worrying about that problem.  Just want to make sure the tibia is fine.

New Hokas arrived.  Looks like this model give much better stability but the show is pretty narrow.   I'll test it out when I start running again but it looks promising for using in Across the Years.

Eliptical and some careful treadmill running.  No ill effects, except my chronic hamstring problem is flaring up....tends to do that if I'm not using it regularly.  

27 indoor miles on treadmill and the tracks at Lehi Legacy Center and the American Fork fitness center (my son swam a swim meet there).   After that ventured out on Frozen Utah lake.  Usually have two solid weeks under freezing, dipping below zero the lake frezzes solid.  Sure enough.  I wasn't the first one out there.  I saw tracks of ice fisherman.  They made a terrible mess out there leaving trash all over....makes me made.   THe snow was rather deep, but along the fissures where water had seeped out, melting snow and then freezing over, there were crystals on top of that making a nice fast running surface, so I ran along these lone frozen cracks out until I could barely see any shore through the fog/smog.

Leg pain on and off, mostly off.  Just can't figure it out because the pain points shift.   I suspect I probably have a small tear in the layer over my healed break line and it is sending pain down the leg through the surface nerves.   I hope that is all it is.  I'm just going to keep running and see what happens.   The pain is mild, only about a 2.