This weekend is the BAE Half Marathon in Kingsport. My plan for this week was to get in a couple of short runs just to keep my legs loose, however, that has yet to happen. It has been busy at work and I got to enjoy a 16 hour workday yesterday and probably a 10+ hour day today. So, needless to say, I won't be running today either.
This busy week has given me the opportunity to rest my right foot. For the past couple of weeks my heel has been hurting pretty bad, so after some online research, all of my symptoms point to plantar fasciitis. I noticed that I fell into just about every category of causes for it as well, including running in worn out shoes, having tight calf muscles, increasing your running distance too fast, etc. So for the past several days I have been icing it and it's feeling much better. There were days that I woke up in the morning and I couldn't stand on my right foot because the pain was so intense. I certainly hope it goes away completely before Saturday.
Speaking of worn out shoes, I have gotten two solid runs in on my new Asics Nimbus shoes and they are super sweet! Way more comfortable than my old worn out Nikes I was running in. I got about 6.5 miles in with Chris on Thursday before we saw Race Across the Sky and then about 4.5 on Saturday morning on my way to the Bristol Health Challenge.
Hopefully I'll have a better update for you later in the week as we get closer to my first big running event.
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