Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

I've had random things pop up like that before and disappear within a few days. Hopefully it's just a little residual irritation from the race.

Hope that goes away as quickly as it appears!

Joe: is it toward the toes or toward the heel? I've had issues with my peroneal tendon before (assuming what you have is the same thing). I tweaked it in the fall on a long run tempo on uneven trail, ran my half PR on it a week later, which caused it to flare up. Easy running and one day of rest took care of it. In addition to the usual stuff (ice and such) I also wore hard-soled shoes (those Keen sandals with the hard rubber bottoms), which sounds counter-intutive but they worked really well (even though I looked silly with compression socks under sandals).

Rest easy.

The one thing that's making me worry less is that it came on pretty suddenly, so hopefully nothing long-term. 800 mg of ibuprofen and a couple hours glued to my chair have helped a little.

Jason - I'd say kind of mid-foot, just behind (to the posterior side) of that bump on the outside edge of your foot, where tendon meets bone. Thanks for your input, hopefully this is as short-lived as your experience.

Off days are never that friendly for me either, everything gets all stiff and rebellious. I was just posting about it on Andrea's blog. Sorry to hear about the foot, hopefully it's a quick recovery!

I was going to say, before I finished the read, man...you didn't even take a single day off!

Hope the foot pain goes away quickly!

I hope it goes away. I had peroneal tendonitis, one time in each ankle and it made it so I could not even walk normally. Both times I spent right about 4 weeks on an elliptical. You probably nipped it in the bud early by taking care of it, back then I tended to ignore injuries until it was too late.

Ouch, 4 weeks. Yeah, I hope this is more of an acute type flare-up, because I'm more than ready to get going already...