I'm going to try to walk as little as possible, the opposite strategy to what I've been using recently. I've been walking the two miles to work (and back) each day in hopes of exercising my foot, but since I get a dull pain after about half a mile of walking, I'm thinking it's more likely that I'm just keeping myself from healing efficiently.
I'll have to fix my bike, though. One of the spokes is basically tearing out of the wheel's frame - the frame itself actually has a tear in the metal. It's also rough and bumpy everywhere, and I get flats at a ridiculous rate.
Today I did some core, a little lifting, and 50 minutes on the stationary. My heart rate got up to 170, which I take to be more a sign of how out of shape I am than how hard I was working.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 (50 minutes stationary)
Friday, April 23, 2010 (1 X Bolota Asmerom)
I got a call from Ogliore claiming there was a quality track meet going on 400m from my apartment. Turns out he was right. I went to the track the way I usually do, through the gym. It turned out this was the athletes' area, so I jogged through it trying to look like a track star and fortunately no one asked any questions. Ryan and I proceeded to mock all the fast people for a good while.
Afterward I went for a jog on the baseball field. Even though my foot felt good in Pasadena, it felt bad again tonight. Actually the area of pain increased, so I may have to go see someone. On the plus side, after I ran two laps Bolota Asmerom walked out. I ran past, looked back, stopped, and said, brilliantly, "Are you Bolota?" (I have no idea whether I pronounced it correctly.) He chatted with me for a few minutes as I helped him set up some hurdles to do drills. He personally recommended the Vibram shoes to me. Then I ran a couple more laps and stopped because my body hates me.