Peroneal Tendonitis.

Peroneal tendonitis...this is the diagnosis I got when I further freaked out about the pain in my foot and saw a podiatrist this past Tuesday.  Basically the tendon that goes behind the ankle bone and then along the outside edge of my foot is inflamed.  What is it with my tendons???  It seems they are very easily irritated these days and it's really beginning to irritate me!

The good news is that the podiatrist thought with resting it I should be able to run the marathon on Sunday.  He took some precautionary x-rays and all 3 films came back normal..Yay!  The area is not painful to the touch so I think it's a lot less severe than the patellar tendon injury I had.  I'm on a prescription NSAID, icing it, supporting it with KT tape, and most importantly not running at all.  It's hard not to test it out, but I want that area as healed as it can possibly be at the starting line so I'm trusting the regimen.

In other pre-race news it's going to be a chilly one this year!  Here's the forecasted conditions for the marathon as of today...

    
I haven't ever ran in temps this chilly for an endurance or long distance race before.  I've experienced this weather for a 5K, but I imagine dealing with these elements for 5 hours will bring a whole new aspect of running.  It should be interesting.  But it's the Chicago Marathon, and it can't help but be epic, and awesome, and super cool regardless of what mother nature throws at us.  Also, tons of runners posting to the marathon facebook page are very excited for these temperatures, especially since the last few years have been so hot in Chicago on race day.  I'm sure they know what they are talking about...after all this is only my 2nd marathon.  I'm hoping to embrace the cold and have a fabulous run!

Freaking out.

I haven't run since last Thursday when my 'new shoes' left my foot feeling very stressed.  It was even aching when walking so I wanted to give it sufficient time to calm down.  Today it felt pretty good even after walking the loop on my lunch break, so tonight I planned to go for an easy 2 mile run.  I laced up the new-new shoes that were the same everything as my old ones except for the color.  It did not go well and I'm freaking out!

Seriously 4 strides of running form into my workout and my foot cramped and had shooting pains underneath, on top, and along that outer edge of my left foot.  I stopped immediately and walked back home.  Now I have pain upon just walking again.  I could just scream, or cry, or both right now!  I'm sort of hoping it was more due to a charlie horse cramp since it felt a lot like that, but I'm skeptical.  I am so frustrated that I worked and worked to straighten out my knee issue with the ultimate goal to be able to run Chicago.  Now less than a week before the race I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to run, and not because of my knee (which is feeling great) but because some idiot at the running store put me in the wrong shoes.  My plan is to rest it and stretch it until it feels good again... which will hopefully be prior to Sunday.  I will be wearing my old shoes from now on until all fall races are complete!  I plan to pre-medicate with Ibuprofen on Sunday if it still feels sore since it definitely feels like a soft tissue injury.  My goal of getting in under 5 hours isn't looking as promising as it did a week ago when I crossed the half-marathon finish in under 2:10 :(  Please left foot heal quickly, and I promise never to make you wear those mean pink shoes again!!