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Having stretched and softer-grounded my way past sore shins, coped with weeks of permanently aching thighs and marvelled at how the ache in my shoulder vanished when they fixed the aircon in the office, I really thought I would be able to settle in for a stretch of (relatively) pain-free running.
But no. I had a couple of twinges in my left arch on my Sunday run but thought nothing of it. I woke yesterday morning to, again, the odd twinge, but it went away once I got up and moved around. By the end of yesterday, though, my arch was hurting with every step and even kept shooting pain at me while I was sitting down.
It's no better today
I popped into Boots on the way to work to get some arch support insole thingies, but I've just scared myself silly by reading up stuff on t'internet (I really should have learned by now not to do that). Have I gone and properly broken myself, or might this be something that'll go away in a few days and let me get back to running again, albeit with the extra arch supports? I really want to run every step of that 5km in less than 5 weeks time, but not if it's going to make my foot worse and make me have to take a longer rest afterwards.
But no. I had a couple of twinges in my left arch on my Sunday run but thought nothing of it. I woke yesterday morning to, again, the odd twinge, but it went away once I got up and moved around. By the end of yesterday, though, my arch was hurting with every step and even kept shooting pain at me while I was sitting down.
It's no better today
I popped into Boots on the way to work to get some arch support insole thingies, but I've just scared myself silly by reading up stuff on t'internet (I really should have learned by now not to do that). Have I gone and properly broken myself, or might this be something that'll go away in a few days and let me get back to running again, albeit with the extra arch supports? I really want to run every step of that 5km in less than 5 weeks time, but not if it's going to make my foot worse and make me have to take a longer rest afterwards.