It ain't Chinese algebra!

13 miles this morning. I ran to Tualatin HS and then 50 minutes around the xc course and track. Had to make a couple bathroom stops but otherwise, I felt pretty good.

Boston (557)

Nothing today.  It's my first ZERO in a long time.  Bummer.  I was up way too late last night and just couldn't get out of bed this morning. 

In addition, the top of my right foot feels similar to how it did in July 2009 when I developed a stress fracture and had to give up running for 2 months.  It feels better tonight than last night so hopefully it will be back to normal by tomorrow and I can get back to running.  I always seem to try and stretch out the miles on my shoes and then it comes back to bite me in the end.  566 miles on my Boston's and now they're in the trash so I'm not tempted to use them again.

I'm thinking it's a stress fracture, or at least the beginning stages of one. It feels the exact same as last year and hasn't made much improvement in the past couple days. I'm eating calcium and vitamin D pills like candy (not really, but daily anyway) and will RICE for the rest of the week. Hopefully that helps and I can salvage the Portland marathon. If not, it was a great 2010! :)

My foot started to feel better Thursday night.  Friday morning it was back to feeling messed up but then again last night it felt fine.  Go figure?  I'm no Dr so I'm clueless about what it may be.  All I know is that if felt very similar to last year when I took 2 months off from running to let me foot heal.

Anyway, it felt okay when I woke up so I thought I'd try running in the park in my five fingers on the soft ground.  It didn't feel great, but it didn't hurt worse either.  Now that I'm done my foot feels totally normal.

I guess we'll see how it feels on Sunday/Monday and go from there.  I'm okay with missing 4 days of running this week if I'm still able to run Portland.  Keeping my fingers crossed...