1. Without Running I will go insane
2. I need running in my life more than I ever knew
3. I cannot continue to eat like a 300lb man and have bacon ranch sandwiches for lunch everyday when I don’t run.
I haven’t posted in a while because I was in a running funk and I thought I’d save you all from my pity posts about not being able to run. Three weeks ago I found out I had posterior tibial tendonitis. Which basically means I had really bad pain in the arch/heel of my foot whenever I walked/ran. The first two days of not running weren’t so bad, I pretended they were rest days( see I’m really good at mind games), but when the pain was still there I started to FREAK. Was I going to lose everything I worked for? Was my endurance going to be affected? If you didn’t know this already, I’m completely mental about running. I think it’s because I went from not being able to run a half mile to running a half marathon in such a short period amount of time that I constantly freak out about losing my endurance just as quickly, crazy I know.
After speaking with the PT she thinks I either amped up my mileage too much in such a short amount of time or that I don’t stretch enough. Personally, I think know that I don’t stretch enough. Actually I rarely stretch at all. I like to still think I still have my gumby 16-year old dancer body. Shockingly I don’t, darn it. So a week goes by of not running and I’m starting to get so antsy. I feel like everyone around me is getting their runs in– I swear all of a sudden people were running past my window at work throughout the day. So I decided to ask the Acupuncturist who works at my job if she could help me out. Turns out she could. I’m not going to lie, the need she put in the bottom of my foot and my arch KILLED me. She used STM on the needles in my knee, arch, and bottom of my foot. Twenty minutes later and BOOM I was back to normal. Crazy right? I tried running New Years Day, I did about 1.5 miles and my arch started hurting again. Womp,Womp. First thing Monday I got acupuncture again and my foot felt great. We think the taping the PT did was forcing me to pronate which was causing another injury, so we decided to take the tape off and see how I felt.
Last week I went full force back into running. What a stupid, stupid idea. Can you blame me though? I was SO excited to run again. My foot felt great until Saturday. I had a long run planned, but only did 5 miles because my foot was bothering me. So far I’ve taken off Sunday & Monday, I’m trying to be a good little runner but it’s driving me insane. I feel like my runs suck now from taking off and I feel all flabby and gross. Am I crazy? On a lighter note, I finally joined Daily Mile. Woo-hoo. My goal for 2012 is to run 1,000 miles, do-able? I think so!
Some goals I’ve made for myself that I’d like to achieve in the next 6 months
1. Run a sub-30 5k
Clearly I was hot and took my clothes off and threw them on the ground.
2. Suck it up & Join a local running group, which hopefully will help with goal number 1.
3. Run the Jersey Shore Half Marathon with Rebecca & Kailey. Oh, and hopefully have some crazy PR like 45 minutes or so. Gotta be ambitious, right?
Maybe I'll actually keep up with Rebecca this time
I’m going to use the Mcmillan running calculator to get my booty in gear. Has anyone else seen results from it? What are some of your short-term goals for 2012? It doesn’t have to be running related! Also, is anyone running in the 10 mile to the Brewery run on January 28th in Sayville? I don’t think I’ll be running , damn foot, but I’ll be cheering everyone on 🙂
Until next time,
Run Hard. Run Long. Run Strong.
See Bri Run 