I finally hit double digits again this week in my running mileage! Yes an amazing 11.9 miles! And over three runs. My foot still doesn’t hurt while running, but during non-running times it does, some of the time. Basically, my foot feels fine for about half to 3/4 of the day. While at work my foot usually starts hurting around lunch time. I’ve been up and down on it a lot, walking around, etc.
Monday was President’s Day and a day off. So I ran 3 miles on the Greenway, with about 3 inches of fresh snow on the ground. It was a pretty fluffy snow. For some reason (holiday?) the Greenway hadn’t been plowed, which is fairly unusual since it was 10am. I thought running in the bike tracks would feel better, but it actually felt better to run on the fresh snow. So that’s what I did.
Tuesday was my last appointment for Iontopherisis. While the treatments did help, my foot still isn’t healed. This time she even did an ultrasound on it for awhile. I was really hoping these treatments would work.
Yes, I didn’t run again until Friday morning. A lack of motivation to get up in the morning and a fairly busy evening schedule kept me off the roads. I’ve also been real hesitant to go when it is dark, because of the ice and wanting/needing to protect my foot. The sun is slowly peaking up earlier and earlier and on Friday morning I finally got the motivation to go for it. 6:30 am 3.1 miles on the Greenway. We’ve been having warmer temps and sunny days so there is a lot of snow melting. Obviously, it re-freezes at night so there were lots of frozen streams to navigate. I wore my heart rate monitor for an average of 166.
A friend of mine hosted a meeting on Saturday about Team World Vision and then we went for a 5.5 mile run afterwards. We ran from the Nokomis Community Center heading East toward the river. He needed to run 5 and we were both feeling pretty good when I looked down at my watch and we were in the 2.8 range! The Minnehaha Parkway trails also have a lot icy patches but are overall in pretty good shape. It was a balmy 24 and very sunny.
Sunday was another beautiful day, but we stayed inside.
Did you have a good week?
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