I think there’s something wrong with my right shoe. It feels like I’m trying to balance my right foot on a rock and it keeps tipping in. I stopped at Fleet Feet and the girl said it’s caused by an injury. Na, I think it’s causing an injury. I’m fine in another shoe or without.
Tom:
I thought you were always barefoot.
No wonder the running is going so well, now that you are using shoes! 
Happy RRing,
Jerry
Wear no unnecessary shoes.
It feels lots better without my shoes, but it’s not the shoe.
I have a Metatarsalgia. The Physical Therapist guy says not to count myself out yet, but don’t run till he says so.
That ultrasonic deep heating thing feels lovely on your foot. I have squishy gell-pads for my running shoes, and a golf ball under my desk to roll around while I’m working. The golf ball actually feels pretty nice.
How are you keeping up with your training?
Not well, right now. I’m on the injured list. It could stop me, but the therapist says not to count myself out yet.
Tom Ruby said:On to the Stationary bike and into the pool!
Not well, right now. I'm on the injured list. It could stop me, but the therapist says not to count myself out yet.
That’s what I was thinking. Remember, you are running for the rest of us. You can’t let the side down!
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Hoping to get back to running this week. Saturday is our longest training run, 20 miles, and I don’t want to miss it. Of course, this close to the Marathon, the last thing I want to do is hurt myself again. Had an x-ray Friday to be sure I didn’t have a stress fracture or anything.
Bones are amazing, aren’t they? They’re small enough to break with your fingers, but can take all that load of running, jumping…
Ran 4 miles this morning, not 10, with the new gell pads. Had a little knee trouble. I’ll try tomorrow without the gell pads as they seemed rather annoying.
Ran 12 miles this morning, having missed the 20 mile run 2 weeks ago. Maybe should have waited a little longer. Ow. I think I forgot put post a photo of when I finished the Chicago Distance Classic 1/2 Marathon:
Wow. I can’t believe I stopped posting.
I looked up this thread 'cause I needed to know what the doctor thought was too high. Got it. Was pretty fun reading through it, but I can’t believe I stopped posting.
So, 8 years too late, here’s the outcome.
The day of the marathon, I hadn’t run for weeks, but reached the big day without further injury. I had a little gel piece in my right shoe to attempt to relieve pressure from the injury, but it was annoying so I got rid of it at 5 miles.
My foot was acting up the whole way, but Chicago lamp posts have a knob at the base that is JUST RIGHT for stretching my foot out. About mile 15, I was having lots of trouble but discovered I could go along just to the right of the crown of the road and the slope helped out.
I stayed ahead of the “6 hour pace van” until mile 18, when it passed me. Shucks. Was hoping for a 6 hour marathon. At mile 20, I caught up with a girl who was sagging. She asked if I had any runner’s goo. I counted my supplies and figured I had an extra 100 calorie pack, so I gave it to her. A little later she had energy again and went on ahead.
I slowed way down about mile 21, my foot was really bad and I wondered if I could keep going. A black girl joined me and we limped along together till about the end. We started making it our goal to pass that sign before they took it down, but were falling short of that.
As I made the last turn and saw the finish, I decided, foot or no foot, I was going to run it. Just short of the finish line, I felt something in my foot give and I knew it was hurt, but I finished at a run in 7 hours and 10 seconds. A half-hour slower than I figured on and an hour slower than I had hoped for. But then, I hadn’t run for weeks, so I figured I didn’t do too bad.
Where many runners stop to recover, I sat down and got my shoes off, had a banana and a bagel. Then walked down to the World Vision tent with my medal. “Tommy is here!” the leader shouted. I wasn’t the last to come in.
When it was time to go home, I carried my shoes back to the parking garage where I could not find my car for anything. Walking around in a daze and starting to stiffen up, a man stopped and asked, “Are you lost?”
“Yes!” I replied.
“Get in,” he said. I told him where I had come in, and he took me there, then to a “T.” “Which way did you go.” I looked to the right, then to the left and there was my car!
I started training again the next spring, but work was not going well and we all had taken a massive pay cut, so I figured I didn’t need to spend the several hundred it had cost to do the marathon again. Besides, my foot still wasn’t right.
8 years later, my foot is pretty much working. Maybe I’ll try it again.
Damn, you are more driven/ambitious then I am. But that’s probably why I am a Butt modeler. Actually, I am the King Butt Modeler.
You done good.
Tom, I didn’t know you owned shoes. Everytime i saw you at Martys you were barefoot.
wow Tom did not know you were a runner
Dennis
Dennis Rayon said:
wow Tom did not know you were a runner
Dennis
Actually, I’m not. As the guy from World Vision was talking to me about running a marathon, I was thinking, “you don’t know who you’re talking to.” Then he said they could turn a couch potato into a marathoner in one summer, and I said, “Ok. Try it.”
I count as a “slow marathoner,” but faster than the penguins. At that time, at least in Chicago, “penguin” was the term for the people who finish marathons last. People were proud to be in the penguin class.