With London only a few weeks away, I went out on Sunday night to do 14 miles and it all went wrong.¬† I think having been laid off in December with Colds and Flu, I felt that I needed to play catchup but there are no shortcuts in marathon training.¬† I’ve been doing fast 3 and 4 mile threshold runs on the treadmill to try and raise my fitness and then done longer runs at the weekend.¬† I think this had put too much pressure on my aching body.

I now have an inflamed Cuboid bone in my foot and cannot run for a week, which is really annoying when London is only around the corner.  Fortunately, I can cycle, row or swim, so at least can maintain my fitness.

In training for New York, I was running at least 3 x 10k runs in the week plus some speed work then a longer run at the weekend.  Probably between 30 and 40 miles a week at least.  With the pressures of work, illness and family commitments I have only been managing 12 miles max in the week and 10-14 at the weekends.

Hopefully, the weather is set to improve and I can get out and revert back to the longer runs in the week plus a bit of speed work and build up the mileage at teh weekends once my foot is better.

I have found out through this that my left foot is entirely neutral but my right foot over pronates.  I am therefore going to have to retrain my right foot and temporarily wear a support.  At least I have found the reason why the problem has occured.

It’s amazing how one issue causes others though.¬† The inflammation in my foot caused a lot of tightness in my lower calf and down the left hand side of my other leg.¬† This now feels better but the Physio manipulating these areas was a whole lot of pain.

Why do we put ourselves through all this