Sunday, March 7, 2010

30 minutes or so of core, 30 minutes on the exercise bike, lunges.

This is a very modest workout, but it was enough that I felt good leaving the gym. Kevin Dick came by and chatted for a while, too, so that was nice.

Saturday, March 6, 2009 (10 minutes)

I haven't yet resolved my foot problems, and after today I feel like I have not even made any significant progress.

After ten minutes of running, it's still difficult for me to say just what it is a feel in my left foot. It's not really pain, but it's decidedly strange. It feels like stuff is stuck on the bottom of it, so that I'm stepping on a clump of mud stuck to the ball of my foot with each stride. When I check, there's nothing there. That's just the way my foot feels at the moment.

Currently, I can walk about a mile before my foot starts to get sore. I frequently walk further because the soreness is not very significant.

If my foot doesn't improve in another month, I'll probably feel like it's time to go see a doctor, but in the mean time I don't believe they'd have anything substantial to say.

I noticed recently that when I sit at my computer I tend to put a lot of weight on the ball of my left foot because I sit on an pilates ball, and it's too big, so that I can't put both my feet square on the ground at the same time and sit on top the ball. I wind up putting my left foot out in front of my pushed up against the wall, and that might be contributing, because it feels like a lot of pressure. So I'll get a smaller ball.

My weight is 160 pounds now after a relatively long period of relative inactivity, and that extra impact can't be helpful. So the other part of my recovery has to be to go to the gym and do some regular cross training, and at least feel that I'm physically fit, even if I'm not going to be running 90-minute long runs in the near future.