Another run along the canal and river with Kathryn at lunch today. We took a slightly different route to last week which involved going along a track at the side of the Metrolink for a while, although I don’t think I’d take this route if I was on my own. Funny, I feel so much safer up on the fells in the dark with a head torch than I do in some of these areas in Manchester.
I must admit to feeling pretty tired today, although we did set off much faster than last week, probably because we were being dragged along by a couple of blokes who work at the same place at Kathryn, but we soon let them get ahead of us and didn’t bother trying to stay with them.
My tiredness might also be because I haven’t run since last Tuesday due to some foot pain which I have been ignoring for a while. I can pinpoint it back to about five months ago, the first time I did the Coope’s Dozen. A short way through the dozen I realised my shoes weren’t tight enough so I tightened up the laces, however it turned out I had them too tight as a few miles from the end the top of my right foot was getting sore. Ever since then I have had problems with it. Most of the time, there is no pain at all but sometimes there will be a dull ache and occasionally, a shooting pain down my big toe. I did speak to my physio about it last time I was there and she thought it might be tendon related and told me to ice it and keep bending my toes as if using them to pick up an object. Unfortunately, I didn’t heed the icing advice very well and only did it very rarely. On Wednesday morning when I stepped out of bed, my foot was really sore, so much so that I winced out loud. I decided then that I would be best off not running for a while to see if I could sort it out once and for all so I have spent the last five days icing it a lot, exercising the toes and trying to keep weight off the foot as much as possible so have been on my exercise bike instead whilst watching DVDs of Friends to keep me amused.
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One of the other reasons I was so tired today was due to a bit of stomach ache. Most people who know me well know that I have a certain 'issue' with going for number twos in public toilets. It's really odd because I'm in no way prudish and can talk about poo without embarrassment but for some reason, my body rebels against me doing it unless I'm on my own throne. This means that I can't go at work, which can sometimes be a problem, as it was today.
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Really enjoyed the run again, even though I felt like throwing up towards the end. Running with Kathryn is doing me a world of good because, as mentioned last week, I’m running much faster than I do on my own with Ruby. Also, even if I had been running on my own along the canal, I would have slowed down because I was so tired and belly achy but running with somebody else makes you keep going at a faster pace because you don’t want to slow then down.
My foot felt absolutely fine during the run, however later on when I walked Ruby, I got the shooting pain down the toe. It's really weird because I can sit and move my toes any which way to try to replicate the pain but it doesn't happen. Also, if I prod my feet and toes to find a sore spot there isn't one so I'm really confused as to what the problem is and why it only hurts every now and then without rhyme nor reason. Whilst typing, I'm sat with my trusty bag of frozen peas on my foot. Hope it sorts itself out as I don't want to take more time off running with it, last week was so boring on my exercise bike.
Good luck at weekend Kathryn!!!
Total distance – 5.41 miles
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