I turned up at the UTUP today and met up with EtU, YJ and TF. EtU had mentioned on the blog that he was only having a short run but that YJ was hoping for a long one. I was just going to play it by ear, depending on what my foot wanted.
YJ announced at the start that he didn't think he would be having a long run after all as he was feeling tired after Wednesday's Jubilee. We decided to see how it went and all headed off up through the terraced gardens. TF left us in the gardens as she was intending to do some hill reps and then head home.
EtU, YJ and I carried on and headed up the Pike. I said at the bottom that I wouldn't be keeping the promise I made to myself today of never walking up the Pike, as my foot would probably hurt too much, however I set off running at the bottom where it is only a gentle ascent. When I got to the steeper part though, underneath the steps, I carried on going and, weirdly, got no pain at all. Nor did I get any pain running up the steps on my toes. I would be pleased about this, however, driving to the barn this morning, my foot hurt just pressing the clutch pedal so I know that the problem hasn't miraculously gone away. There's just no rhyme nor reason to it. Going up the diagonal with John Parker the other evening caused terrible pain but going up the Pike this morning caused none. It really is a bizarre injury. Can't wait to find out what it is!
After descending from the Pike, EtU left us and YJ was struggling so I said that I didn't mind if he wanted to call it a day and head back. He said that he would go on a little further and see how he felt so we carried on and ran up to Two Lads. Again, I had no foot pain.
From Two Lads, we ran up to the mast then to the top of the mast road and down the diagonal. This is where I did get a bit of pain, but it wasn't in my toe, it was in my ankle of the same foot. This has happened the last few times I have run downhill (pain uphill, pain downhill, lovely!) and I'm hoping that it is linked to the pain in my toe. If it's linked that (to me, but I'm no doctor) means it's muscular and therefore easily treatable. Not sure if that's just me being optimistic, but better to think positively.
At the bottom of the diagonal, YJ decided to call it a day and we headed back to the barn, via the 'sheep's back'.
I toyed with the idea of carrying on for a bit but thought I might be better not pushing it with my foot the way it is. I really don't want to make it worse so am going to take it easy until my scan on Wednesday when hopefully I'll find out a bit more. Saying that, I have a 5k race on Tuesday night but at least that will be on a flat, even surface so hopefully will be OK.
Total distance - 6.4 miles
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