Running42:37 3.45 km (12:20 / km) +52m11:29 / km ahr:148 max:177
Easy run (not sure what's up with HR data - wrist-sensors suck?), and actually 4.5k (started watch late.)
Followed by full body strength.
Some foot rolls/stretches, but not tape or advil as of midnight after, and foot's still around 1 bee sting.
Per Vadim - who's finally recovering from a similar issue, what worked for him was: - Running a few times a week, ramping up to more - Foot stretching and DT from golf ball and plastic pad - Some back heel insoles - Shoes in the house
I'm doing several of these - though I think I'll ramp up the foot stretching - incluing toe down, and angled in, as much as toe pulled up.
Running1:09:56 9.53 km (7:20 / km) +15m7:17 / km ahr:128 max:157
200/400/800 interval workout, with 200 rests. Took most of them easy-ish (24-25 sec 100's), and the last 800 at 2:59.
Wait what, aren't I supposed to rest my foot?
Well, as I suspected, the lack of strength training did more to keep the foot at ~1 bee sting, than the interval training did to exacerbate it. Strange.
Running14:03 1.62 km (8:41 / km) +9m8:26 / km ahr:123 max:134
3 PM
Running7:13 0.8 km (8:59 / km) +7m8:36 / km ahr:116 max:130
Still did normal body strength today, but skipped the AM foot strength, and modified one exericse from my overall workout (on toes -> on whole foot.) And an easy run (O-Shoes, mostly grass.)
Result - foot at ~1 bee sting this evening - with no Advil or tape (yet) - *way* better.
A little stiffness too, and by late evening something in the ball of the foot. Did one SP tape overnight.
Will try a zero foot-strength work day again tomorrow, and perhaps some light track intervals, to see if that also stays contained.
Running35:39 3.7 km (9:39 / km) +34m9:13 / km ahr:116 max:142
Today's run was quite slow/easy & short, and I continued the strength work.
Food is on fire this evening at 3-4 bee stings - after ice, 2 advil and Salon Pas tape. :(
As in long-past incidents (mostly around tendonitis) I'm thinking the recommended strength work is exacerbating the daily-pain part of the issue - so tomorrow I'm going to skip that, and just do an easy run, and hopefully by the evening it'll calm back down.
The usual advice of don't-run, and do-strength both seem contrary to my experience.
Running orienteering races, hard and/or long wasn't nearly as bad as this past few days of some relativley light work and strength training. Even past interval sessions (in O' shoes) seemed fine.
Hoping that tomorrow's foot-strength training skip calms this back down. Not quite sure what I'll embark on next at that point, but if I can at least get back to a relativley light schedule of training, and some racing, at the ~1-bee-sting level I was at for much of the past few weeks, that'll be an improvement from the past few days :/