Have been stuggling a lot lately with my sore right foot/bone spur/plantar fascia/achilles/whatever it's all connected anyway. Probably was not a good idea to run that 5k 36 hours before the Delaware Marathon. Also probably wasn't a good idea to run every day the week after the marathon, which I thought I had to do because after that I would have almost two weeks off at dog shows.
Then I really aggravated while we were at the FCR Nationals, running around the conformation ring with Zen. Felt a pain in it after I showed her the second day, and I could barely walk on it after that.
Then I got home, and before I had a chance to get better, I stupidly ran a fast 5k. Got sucked into entering by my daughter. It's a race in the neighborhood that I do like but it was a bad time for me to be racing. I told myself I was just going to jog but in the end the competitive fires got the better of me. It's one where the top 25 men and top 25 women get nice glass beer steins. I have two of them from previous years and I wanted a third. Bummer, I finished 31st but worse than that, I could barely walk afterwards. In fact, I couldn't walk home. We had to hitch a ride from a kind stranger.
So since then (early June) things have been bad. I got so desperate I even spent a ridiculous amount of money on off-the-shelf orthotics from The Good Feet store. What a rip off. Anyway, it's been six weeks or so now and I think that maybe it is slowly getting better. As usual, time off from running does not seem to help at all. I feel worse after skipping a day than if I run, somehow.
Am thinking about making and keeping a little log of my footwear and activity to see if there is any pattern, because it seems like I have to wear something a little different every day to keep it at bay. Some days I need the mega-inserts from The Good Feet store. Other days, I get relief from mere Powerstep insoles. And some days, I even feel best wearing just the insoles the shoe came with. I don't really see a pattern to it, so I'm wondering if there is one.
