Subject: Looking for sympathy/Am following Dr's Orders After the high and recovery from Ironman Louisville and 4 months of light duty exercise, my crew wanted to do some type of upcoming race. We ran together ("we" being the guys who all trained for and completed Louisville) through December and decided that we wanted to run a local marathon that is on March 9. We signed up on Jan 1 and got to it. I searched google for 8 week marathon plans and there are none. Imagine that. On Feb 15th at mile 17 of an 18 mile run, my left foot began to have a sharp pain. Long story short, went to my foot Doctor and my third metatarsal is broken. Not fractured, broken. I'm in one of those funny looking boots now. Probably too much running in a short amount of time contributed to this. Im pretty active so this is killing me. Marathon is Saturday. Should I run it? Just kidding. I do hate I'm missing it but the real kicker is.........I am signed up for Ironman Raleigh 70.3 in the beginning of June. Dr. says I can swim all I want right now and I will be visiting him in 3 weeks for another xray. By then, he says, I will be 6 weeks into recovery and should be able to get on my trainer and ride and ride on the road. Then ease back into running. As far as Raleigh goes, we will see. I feel certain that if all goes well, recovery wise, I'll be good to participate. Notice I said participate because that what I do anyway. If this was my first, I would be worried but because I know how to handle these and I dont have the pressure of "I gotta finish!", I know I'll be good. I would have never thought that I would be out with a broken foot bone. Those feet really take a pounding. |