This week marked week 1 of my 18 week marathon training plan. It didn’t go so hot.

I talked a little bit last week about some tendinitis in my left foot, but that’s not quite the whole story. For the last two months or so, I’ve had a bump on the bottom of each foot. My doctor diagnosed them as corns last month and promptly froze them. Personally, I think they’re plantar warts but that doesn’t matter so much as the treatment is the same either way. In any case, I believe the pain of the corns/warts changed my stride resulting in the tendinitis. I ran a pretty decent run with Richie on Tuesday, but the tendinitis flared up and so I did 30 miles on the stationary bike Wednesday.

On Thursday, I went back to the doctor to go over my blood work and we revisited the corns/warts. He froze them (and a third one on my right pinky toe) again, this time getting really, really deep. They all turned purple and hurt like hell. Thursday afternoon, I managed to hobble around Alice’s cross country meet pretty well (she won with a time of 23:18, by the way!) and I continue to pare down the corns/warts with my handy dandy paring tool. They seem to be getting better and the tendinitis hasn’t bothered me for a few days so I think I’m on the mend. I did go cold turkey on running for five days, though. I figure I’d rather do that and have 17 good weeks of training, rather than try to fight some tendinitis for 18 weeks.

Anyway, here’s how the week went:

Monday AM: 18 miles stationary bike
Monday PM: 4 miles with Richie at 8:05 pace
Tuesday AM: 10 miles (6 with Richie) at 8:15 pace
Wednesday AM: 30 miles stationary bike

Total: 14 miles running, 48 miles biking (guess I should be a cyclist)