After my New Year's Eve Half that left me with a swollen foot and a limp for a week, I wasn't sure I'd be able to tackle the Tinkerbell Half injury free. But I did!
The next day, however, when I set out to do an easy 3 mile shake out run, my right foot arch started hurting, so I stopped running after only 2 miles and figured I'd take a few days break from running to give it a rest.
That was five days ago. My original plan this morning was to go for an easy ten miler. However, I woke up and figured I should take it easy on my body and just do six. I felt awesome for the first mile, picking it up and running fast whenever the chorus of a song came on. And then after two miles, I felt that pain in my arch again. (This was right after a huge guy pulled over and got out of his car and asked me, "Why you runnin'?" It scared the shit out of me until he then asked if I saw a cocker spaniel.)
I really, really wanted to do at least three miles and kept running for a bit, until I told myself I was being stupid and made myself stop and turn around and head back home. I jogged for a little bit, then just made myself walk. It was such an internal struggle to not run. The thought of walking 2.5 miles back home was just not appealing, but it beats hurting my foot more. And then I saw the short-cut path that would lead me back to my house in about 15 minutes that I had completely forgotten about. Yay! Thank God for short-cuts!
I've got a 10K with a friend coming up in a couple of weeks. I'm thinking I might just take a complete break from running until then. I wonder how that will turn out.
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