First I need to express the sheer joy of the Phillies signing Mr. Clifton Phifer Lee. This was all I was thinking about all during Tuesday's run. It ended up being a short run because about 2 miles in, I felt a sharp localized pain in the top of my left foot. I decided to play it safe and cut the run short.
Over the last decade + of running, I've learned the difference between pain that you can run through and pain that you shouldn't. I've been using the RICE technique to treat it for now. For those of you that don't know, that is Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. There doesn't appear to be any swelling, so I haven't taken any ibuprofen. On Wednesday, I felt the same pain, but mainly when walking up and down stairs. I decided to take the day off.
Typically when I'm in the heart of training, I take an off day once every 3 weeks. I'm nowhere close to the weekly mileage I would like to do, so my body needs a little more time to recover until it gets used to the training. In these early weeks, I'll probably take an off day once a week and gradually increase the days between until I back to the once every 3 week plan.
Today the pain was a lot more dull and I feel like I could have gone out for a run. There was also a nice snow falling and I love snow running. Instead I headed to the gym to do a half hour of aquajogging and 45 minutes of biking. I got a couple strange looks for staying in only the deep end and going in small circles. I didn't pay them much attention because those same people wouldn't understand the point behind competitive running.
Right now my goal is to supplement this aquajogging and biking for my normal run as to not loose as much of the fitness I've developed in the last week and a half. Hopefully I can be back to running by tomorrow or this weekend, but I'm not going to rush the recovery.
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