Rant Against the Health Gods

Rich Stanbaugh

Sometimes - things just don't go as planned.

I finished IMCoz, my third full in 2014, feeling great. I took the entire month of December without a training schedule, wrote a pretty detailed plan with targeted improvement areas... 2015 was going to be a banner year!

By early February, what started as a 'tweaked hamstring' had become a partial ablation... training stopped & PT started. Yesterday - after two months of strengthening and healing I went for my first real run. It was awesome! Until my shoe caught on a crack and my foot rolled...

It seemed OK... I negative split each mile the second half of the run. After my shower, my foot was hurting significantly. By dinner it was really hurting. This morning - x-rays say fracture. 

Sometimes- things just don't go as planned!

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GMAN 19030

See Bob McCallum. All of 2014. Hopefully you have no further issues.

Al Truscott

Geez, that's disheartening. You do everything right, and still...

Paul Hough

So there I was, in 2013, almost finished with a run when POP, I heard and felt like I cracked a bone in my left foot. Turned out that I ruptured my plantar fascia...like a rubber band breaking. Total suckage year. 2014 was mixed. 2015 is off with a bang. This too shall pass...better days ahead.

ezellrh

Rich, keep your notes, fix your body. Then get back after it with renewed vigor and care. Long view

Good luck!

Rich Stanbaugh

Thanks!

I will spend a few weeks working on my core, then (hopefully) I will be on the bike. I had the same injury last summer... maybe I need training wheels for my running shoes!

Rich Stanbaugh

Looks like I cursed the Gods too soon... Orthopedic told me the other doc misread the x-ray and what they thought was a new break was really part of the break that I had last year.

So - just chill out for awhile until my foot's guts feel better and then back at it!

Nice to get good news!!