In my fourth week of training (really the fifth but I will go over that) I was frustrated with myself. I felt like I wasn’t improving and that I was set back by my past injuries. I was unable to train in the previous week as I had pushed myself too far and I had to rest my foot.
I am not sure the extent of how badly my foot was broken years ago, as I was 14 at the time and I struggle to recall memories from then (six years ago) but what I do know is that because I didn’t go to the emergency room right away, my foot had started to heal on its own and it wasn’t healing bad enough for the doctor to preform a surgery to fix it, which would have been the only solution at the time. I was sent home with instructions to use crutches and avoid pressure on my foot to prevent further harm, but being a moody 14 year old that was embarrassed by breathing in public, I avoided the use of my crutches after the second day. If I could go back in time I would knock some sense into myself, but all I can do now is adapt my activities to better suit my self and hope I don’t over exert myself. Unfortunately for me it seemed like walking on the treadmill was the exact opposite thing that my foot needed, and I was unable to put a ton of pressure on my foot for a week as a result.
This week I was feeling a lot better, and decided to go back to my original pattern of 5 minutes walking and 30 seconds running, and see how my foot fared with the old routine. It seemed to go over well, I haven’t noticed any unusual pain and I think my stamina is recovering. I also was relieved to see the snow was mostly gone, and I was able to comfortably go on my usual trail where the ground is a bit softer and easier for my foot to handle.
I decided to act like a running influencer on Tik Tok and film myself for my running portions, but I had to mute the audio so you can’t hear my breathing, and because I cannot find a song I wanted to add.
Overall my fourth week went quite well, especially since I had to take a pause for the previous week, I felt like I got back on track right away. I am happy with the progress I made to help me get back to where I was, even if it was more of a step to the side rather than forward.