Recovering from micro-fracture surgery :(

I put the boot back on today :(  !!  October 1st and I plan on wearing it for the month.  I need my foot better and this is the only way that it will get better.  It was hurting like it did before the doc this morning after my stationary bike ride.  The top of my foot is hurting and the tingling is worse than it has been for a month.  I shouldn't have gone on my run/hike the other day....I just thought it should be healed by now.  I am going to cut down on my Diet Pep and go and get more calcium pills. I already eat pretty clean and good (other than my addiction to Diet Pepi).  I have got to get better!!!!  I can't stand not running and hiking in this weather! :( :( :( :( !! BOO

1 hr on the bike.....1 hr on the elliptical in my basement. YUCK!

I've had a busy week of kids and showing our house.  People like it again and are thinking about it.....this will be couple #4 in the past few months that are very interested and I am sure we will never hear from them again.  It is okay because my house was needing a good deep clean again.  I like it when I have to clean for a reason and not just my everyday routine!

I don't know what to do about my foot.  This is the first time I have been on the elliptical that the top half of my foot didn't tingle and I am not having any pain, but I have also been wearing my boot most of the week.  I am crossing my fingers!  I just wish someone would tell me what to do.  I really don't want to re-injure my foot, but I would really like to get back at it so I can be in good shape for Boston.

I called and can't get in to see my orthopedic doc for a month since it is not an emergent problem.   I have an old boyfriend that lives out of state that is a podiatrist.....I have even thought of sending off a message to ask him his opinion, but since he hates my guts, I guess that isn't a good idea either.  Wish I knew what to do! If I just had some patience and didn't care about getting out of shape, I am sure taking a couple of months off and doing nothing would do the trick! :(

I wish I could throw on my shoes and run my strength out this morning.  I know this is a running blog and I can't run....but, I wish more than anything I could run today.  

Running just makes me feel better all around.  I need it, I'm addicted to it....I love it.  I got up early even after I was out late last night and got on my bike this morning and watched the news while I rode for an hour since I am going to be at the elementary school volunteering for most of the day.  Got the kids off to school all but my 4 yr old and 13 yr old that has late start this morning.  I got on to check his grades and just  don't understand how he can not turn things in or study for his tests.  He has been tested for a lot of things because he was sent to earth with quite a few problems that have been difficult for him.  His IQ is 98th percentile (so he is brilliant) and yet has ADHD.  All he cares about is food and video games.  I told him to turn off his video games and that he knows the rules.....if things aren't turned in and he gets below a B-, he is grounded.  It was WW3 this morning.  

You get married and have children and think they will be like you and then I think God does a funny trick on you to teach you patience, love and understanding and sends you a child that is nothing like you.  It is not that he is a teenager that has made him difficult.  He has been difficult from birth.  I just need a good run today to make me feel better.  The bike just isn't cutting it! :(   To top off my fab day, I get to head to southern Utah again to ride atvs and shoot guns...two of my least favorite activities and my husband's favorite activities.  I really need a good run today and one to look forward to to help me through the weekend! ha!

Come on all...I can't feel good from a run.  I am needing  a PUMP UP! I can be a good wife and mom this weekend...I can, I can! :)

I again called the orthopedic doc at TOSH yesterday. I told his assistant that I just couldn't wait to see him in a month and could she please talk to him. She called back and now I am going in today for an MRI on my foot and will see him after they get the results back. I should have just got the MRI in August. We are heading to San Francisco tomorrow for the UEA weekend. I am really hoping I don't have to put the boot on for the trip.

I am curious to see what is wrong. I have been good and haven't been running. I just ride the bike every morning. I wonder if that is contributing to my foot not healing. We'll see..... :(

Went to the doc today.  MRI looked good.  Only problem was edema and extra blood flow to the area, but other than that looked good so he said to start out slow....run 8 minutes to start.  I ran a little more than a mile in 8 minutes.  I walked the last mile.  I thought I would have stayed in a little better shape.  I was huffing and puffing!  I wasn't thinking and grabbed my fav running shorts and a tank and went to my moms for a run.  When I put the shorts on my 5 extra pounds made them feel tooooo tight!  I can't wait to run that off!

My foot still doesn't feel right.  The nerve that keeps zinging and making half of my foot tingle all of the time is driving me crazy!

San Francisco was such a fun vacation.  I would love to live there.  I have never been in a city with so many runners out at all hours of the day.  Running the wharf and across the Golden Gate Bridge is now added on to my bucket list! 

Ran 2.55 in 21 minutes.  Rode the bike for one hour.

I am so upset with my dr. right now.  He is suppose to be one of the best orthopedic foot docs around here!  My hub is a doc and just printed off my mri report for me.  He just called me and said that there is not excess blood flow to the area or edema (like the doc said) but there is a cyst.  They don't know if the cyst is synovial or ganglion but there is a cyst right in the area at the top of my foot where I have been having pain and tingling.  

The doc did tell me that there was a cyst in my foot, but it was not in the area of pain it was farther up and nothing to worry about.  I don't even think he really read my report! My husband says that he sees these types of cysts all of the time and that you can't tell what kind of cyst they are until they are taken out.  He said if it is bothering me I should just go and have it taken out so that I can start running again without pain.  Maybe I didn't even have a stress fracture after all? I am so irritated!

Ran 3, walked 1.  I should really only be up to 1.5 miles right now, but 1.5 hardly seems even worth getting out for.  Rode the bike for 1 hr and core work.  

 RLRF is my new plan.  Thanks IJR/JG/flatlander/derhammer for all of the fun info.  When I went to a physical therapist in June/July for my bursitis/ITband syndrome stuff after my last marathon, he told me about this type of running and how you can actually get better results by running less, just training harder and cross training.  I just really didn't believe him and besides...I just love to run.

I have a friend that is a mother of 8, just turned 40 and she qualified for Boston this year too. She was telling me how she just didn't have time to run every day so she tried the run less, run faster program and only ran one long run a week.  She said that when she did her runs, they were really hard and not a lot of fun, but she used her time well.  She said that when she qualified she was holding back, walked quite a bit, and qualified by 4 minutes just like I did, but she felt great and wasn't even sore.  I couldn't walk for 3 days after qualifying and I pushed myself the entire last 13 and felt like I was running on broken legs the last 5 miles! ha! 

I am going to try it.  I just need to get my bones, and muscles built back up again so that I can start to train! yeeeehooooo! 

Ran 3.5, walked 1