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Getting Back To My Best
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Danica Grumpy Duet wrote: »6/4 you are having a laugh. I will take you up on the other offer though if i go for another marathon attempt this year. I have not booked anything yet as i want to see how the body recovers after next week.
Yeah thats fair enough, we'll wait on that bet until after your 2nd blowup of 2011 on English soil IMUK
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Weds 20th July, Headed over to the club for an easy but hilly 10 miler in the heath. Lashing down from the outset and the park was covered with muddy puddles. I was tipping along nicely having a good chat when my right foot steps on a stick/branch hidden in a muddy puddle. This created a lever effect and had the other end of the stick pointing at an angle. The left foot then comes through and smacks the point of the stick bang on my metetarsal. This all happenned in less than a second and i stopped instantly in severe pain. Walked/limped back to the hospital (where our clubhouse is, how ironic) with pain shooting through the foot but nothing too worrying. Upon examining the foot there is a small very hard lump sticking up out of the bone that really does not feel like normal swelling.
Worrying times, tonight will tell a lot. Icing at the mo and we'll see how it is in the morning. Going to the doctor otherwise, its free over here anyway
I would say that i got the wrong end of the stick but i'm in too much pain for that now!
For what its worth, 3.5 mls at 9'10 pace (nice recovery if nothing else). My body has always been fairly resilient and I bet i'll be back on the road by Friday, fingers crossed.0 -
Brianderunner wrote: »Weds 20th July, Headed over to the club for an easy but hilly 10 miler in the heath. Lashing down from the outset and the park was covered with muddy puddles. I was tipping along nicely having a good chat when my right foot steps on a stick/branch hidden in a muddy puddle. This created a lever effect and had the other end of the stick pointing at an angle. The left foot then comes through and smacks the point of the stick bang on my metetarsal. This all happenned in less than a second and i stopped instantly in severe pain. Walked/limped back to the hospital (where our clubhouse is, how ironic) with pain shooting through the foot but nothing too worrying. Upon examining the foot there is a small very hard lump sticking up out of the bone that really does not feel like normal swelling.
Worrying times, tonight will tell a lot. Icing at the mo and we'll see how it is in the morning. Going to the doctor otherwise, its free over here anyway
I would say that i got the wrong end of the stick but i'm in too much pain for that now!
For what its worth, 3.5 mls at 9'10 pace (nice recovery if nothing else). My body has always been fairly resilient and I bet i'll be back on the road by Friday, fingers crossed.
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Good to know
"Fractures to the Metatarsal bones can be caused by direct trauma, excessive rotational forces or overuse. During football, direct trauma is usually caused by a player accidentally kicking the sole of an opponent's boot"
"There is severe foot pain with a Metatarsal fracture and the patient will usually find it difficult to walk. Often there will be pain if the fracture site is touched"
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Brianderunner wrote: »Good to know
"Fractures to the Metatarsal bones can be caused by direct trauma, excessive rotational forces or overuse. During football, direct trauma is usually caused by a player accidentally kicking the sole of an opponent's boot"
"There is severe foot pain with a Metatarsal fracture and the patient will usually find it difficult to walk. Often there will be pain if the fracture site is touched"
This might be a stupid question but once the swelling goes down would it be possible to run on a broken metatarsal (assuming the worst). I can understand how you couldn't kick a ball but running might be ok if toe was supported etc. Not medical advice
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TheRoadRunner wrote: »This might be a stupid question but once the swelling goes down would it be possible to run on a broken metatarsal (assuming the worst). I can understand how you couldn't kick a ball but running might be ok if toe was supported etc. Not medical advice
but might be worth enquiring about
It took Rooney about 3 weeks before he was running if i remember correctly, 3 weeks of no running = no berlinRacoonQueen wrote: »If it's broken, you'll know it's broken. You won't doubt it. Is there much swelling?
You might be going to that wedding after all.
I know what you mean. The swelling is similar to a third of a golf ball planted on my foot if that makes sense. I've never broken a bone before and i've had much worse ones than this before.
I'll go 5/1 it's brokenAt least i can laugh about it
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Danica Grumpy Duet wrote: »I could think of a buyer:) Hopefully it will not come to that.
You can have the 3'45 pacing job too, its a package dealchinguetti wrote: »Hope its all ok in the morning Brian. If you can't run for a few days, cycle to keep the legs ticking over.
Well cycling to work just there was a painful experience on the left pedal stroke, a bad sign for running on it. Still sore, swollen and i'm limping today.0 -
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Sun 24th July. 4.25 miles easy in 35'16 (8'18) Foot seemed to have healed so chanced it. Ran down to my sisters/mothers hotel in Marble Arch via my old house and my old neighbours house (Amy Winehouse). Spent a few minutes celeb spotting and reading the tribute notes, which included a bottle of malibu, vodka and several cans of beer! She only lived .11 of a mile from me, I never knew. Sickening waste of talent, just like Wanjiru
No pain to report from the foot thankfully
Weekly Review, 24.75 miles and 4 runs. The whole year was under threat after the stick incident Weds but thankfully its clear. Pity i missed the tempo Friday evening though and its left me short of LT work in advance of my half in 3 weeks. The cycling seemed a good substitute i think.
Yearly Mileage, 1046.75 miles
Mon 25th July, 6.5 mls easy (the usual Monday night run to Regents Pk) in 54 mins (8'50). Never felt good throughout, hopefully the 3 days off after the foot injury hasnt had an effect. Met my flatmate after in the heath and did 8 x 100m strides with her (she's going for 3'30 in DCM, may have had something to do with me moving in). 7 mls total.
20 mins core then afterwards. Hope to do this twice a week but good intentions and all that.0 -
You're a gas man in one breath thanking the fact your year isn't over and in the next regretting missing one threshold run
Sometimes a brush with injury can be good. Makes you thankful that you can run and gets you out the door the days motivation is waning. I'm one with the running gods this evening and in philosophical form 0 -
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TheRoadRunner wrote: »You're a gas man in one breath thanking the fact your year isn't over and in the next regretting missing one threshold run
Sometimes a brush with injury can be good. Makes you thankful that you can run and gets you out the door the days motivation is waning. I'm one with the running gods this evening and in philosophical form
In philosophical form maybe but not in sub 55:50 form for Frank Duffy 0
. Hope its nothing serious and you're back running soon 
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