Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

Sounds asinine. Go to the doc, dip@#$%!

Don't know if you have the same thing I did, but it hurt at exactly the same pushing off point, anything else was fine. Honestly, as long as I could run a little bit it seemed OK to run, then try a little bit more the next day, but I am no doctor. You might miss the 10K, though. Take care.

Ouch. I had peroneal tendonitis(the tendon behind the outer ankle bone) in both of my ankles. First I got it in one ankle, couldn't run for almost a month, got over it, ran for a month, and then blew the other ankle shortly thereafter. It hurt on push-off, a debilitating pain, I couldn't even walk without a severe limp. The crazy part was there was no swelling or tender point to push on or anything. Anyways, I had to cross train. As badly as it sucked, I was able to recover and set a lot of PR's. Sorry--long story--the point is, tendons are slow healers. It sounds like the pain has stepped up its game with you and is really starting to hurt and make you hobble. With Houston the ultimate goal on January 30th, I think the best time to cross-train and get the thing completely healed is now--this leaves you plenty of time to recover and train for Houston if you cross-train to maintain aerobic fitness. I came off the elliptical without having lost too much aerobically at all. I would also do ankle strengthening exercises. I found ice to be worthless for an ankle injury(or PF for that matter) but what helped was a week of scheduled ibuprofen(every 6 hours) and then exercises like writing the alphabet with my toe once the pain began to diminish. If you get it taken care of now, then you won't have to struggle through months of training-while-injured for Houston.

I second Mike.

I definitely want to get rid of it fully before I start running again; just like to hope it will be sooner rather than later. If it looks like it'll be more than a few more days, I'll be hitting the gym and figuring out where the doctor is - although I can guess what he/she will say. Thanks all.

I agree with everyone above, especially with April's alphabet writing therapy, etc. You are in great condition now, so if Houston is the ultimate goal for you, ease off your running (ie, no 10K)until you can figure out what this pain is all about. Also, you've increased your daily and weekly mileage a lot in the last month, which might have been the trigger. April wrote somewhere that she has to increase her mileage slowly or else risk getting injured. She suggested adding a mile to your run every other day for one week, then the next week add a mile to the runs you didn't increase the week before, etc. Something to keep in mind when you start ramping up mileage again. (It also might help to gradually shift between TM running and outside running, because of the different type of mechanics they employ.) Good luck; I'm pretty sure you will have a super fast recovery and be back in full training mode soon!

Thanks Adele, hopefully it's short-lived. I already felt like I could've run this morning (thurs) but want to make sure I can't feel it at all, which is not yet the case.

I do always build mileage very slowly, except for that last week, which probably brought out the tendonitis a bit stronger. I got runner's knee when I got into the 30s, a hip flexor strain when I hit the 40s and now this for my first venture into the 50s. I read what I thought was a very conservative piece of advice somewhere not to increase more than 10 miles a year but it doesn't seem totally silly anymore.

Glad it is feeling better Joe! I hope it clears up and does not make a return.