I had a realization yesterday (I'm slow, I realize) that perhaps my leg problems are stemming from the fact that I haven't done much yoga since leaving my old job, where I had a gym across the street. Silly excuse I know, but I haven't been a fan of the Berkeley gym so rarely go. I do have a yoga DVD, which I try to do every so often, but last time I did it a few weeks ago, my plantar fascitis was hurting my left foot so bad that I couldn't continue - this video is power yoga so I was continually in downward dog pose or some related one that didn't feel too good on my arch. Probably because I have become so inflexible that I can no longer get my heels on the ground.
Oops. At any rate, today I pulled the yoga DVD out and completed it (with a few breaks in between). My left foot (plantar fascitis) only hurt once briefly, and my right foot never hurt.
Matt and I later went for a bike ride to a bike shop so I could try out a road bike, and I rode that for awhile, and then rode home on my bike. Not much of a ride, but at least a bit of an aerobic work-out, so I can kind of count it for cross-training number 2.
I iced my foot with actual ice twice today, and it hasn't hurt unless I push on it. While that is better, it is clearly not fixed, so I don't have much hope that I will be able to get through my 13 mile run tomorrow. As a result, I'm just going to run through town to the Marina so I don't get stuck somewhere in the middle of nowhere with a hurt foot.
Since I feel like the pain is more pin-point when I push in between my second and third toes, I'm worried again that it's a stress fracture, but perhaps there is some sort of ligament there that is irritated, since the irritation does not seem to be on the tendon at the moment. Tomorrow will be a big test.
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