Ow

I woke up this morning with some pain on the bottom of my left foot.  It was odd because I didn’t step on anything and Sunday was a pretty light day.  I did some light yard work, then pretty much sat around watching TV and playing poker all day.  In my mind, it was the perfect rest day following Saturday’s 10 miler. 

I hit the treadmill for an interval workout and the pain didn’t really bother me all that much until I got to my cooldown.  Then, it was excrutiating.  I had to cut my cooldown to a quarter mile.  I stretched as normal, showered and got dressed.  Walking to the car, the pain was not too bad, but as I went about walking short 10-15 foot distances at work, it kept getting worse and worse. 

It feels like its probably Plantar Fasciitis.  Pressing on the inflamed area does not intensify the pain at all.  In fact, a brief massage temporarily relieves the pain to some extent.  I’ve got a cycling workout tomorrow, so that shouldn’t be a problem.  Then, I’ll re-evaluate myself to see if Wednesday’s 5 mile tempo run is feasible. 

Planned workout

1 mile warmup 

1600 m at 8:57 pace, 400 m RI

1200 m at 8:47 pace, 400 m RI

800 m at 8:42 pace, 400 m RI

400 m at 8:32 pace

1 mile cooldown

Actual workout

1 mile warmup

1600 m at 8:57 pace, 400 m RI

1200 m at 8:47 pace, 400 m RI

800 m at 8:42 pace, 400 m RI

400 m at 8:32 pace

400 m cool down