On February 16, 2006, I went to the ortho with pain of/in between 2nd & 3rd metatarsals. Felt kind of like morton's neuroma. Like I had in the other foot, about a year earlier, in between the same metatarsals.
I trained through IMLP with this pain with the intentions to lay off the feet for a while afterwards to allow all to heal.
I raced IMLP and really screwed up my ankle from running on the outside of my foot for 26.2 miles or I really should say 18 or so miles before it became a 5 mile death walk before I was able to muster up the strength to run thru the pain for the final 3 miles. anyway.....
So I laid off, but I did not really follow up with any physicians.
In the meantime, I still had isolated metatarsal pain and I also came down with Plantar Fasciitis after kicking a soccer ball around with the kids. I did see my podiatrist for the PF and ended up wearing a boot to bed for a number of weeks, while starting a vigorous stretching routine to try to stretch out the fascia and conquer the heal pain that I now had in conjunction with the metatarsal pain. Speaking with the podiatrist we thought that because my 2nd metatarsal bone is the longest, that the tight fascia could be the culprit of the pain that I've been experiencing for months. I stretched and stretched and stretched my fascia and calf muscles and have quickly "curred" the PF without relief of the metatarsal pain.
Last Friday I had an MRI and receive the results this morning. Stress Fracture of the 2nd metatarsal head coupled with tendinitis of the joint of my second toe.
Pick up a boot tonight and am told that I'll be wearing that thing for a month. (I will be going crazy, I'm a fast walker by nature and this thing is going to slow me down at the office.)
From a tri season, I'm OK with it. I was planning on taking it easy this year anyway with Timberman being the only race of the season. As long as I can heal up within 4 weeks, maybe, just maybe I'll still be able to have a good race in August.
I trained through IMLP with this pain with the intentions to lay off the feet for a while afterwards to allow all to heal.
I raced IMLP and really screwed up my ankle from running on the outside of my foot for 26.2 miles or I really should say 18 or so miles before it became a 5 mile death walk before I was able to muster up the strength to run thru the pain for the final 3 miles. anyway.....
So I laid off, but I did not really follow up with any physicians.
In the meantime, I still had isolated metatarsal pain and I also came down with Plantar Fasciitis after kicking a soccer ball around with the kids. I did see my podiatrist for the PF and ended up wearing a boot to bed for a number of weeks, while starting a vigorous stretching routine to try to stretch out the fascia and conquer the heal pain that I now had in conjunction with the metatarsal pain. Speaking with the podiatrist we thought that because my 2nd metatarsal bone is the longest, that the tight fascia could be the culprit of the pain that I've been experiencing for months. I stretched and stretched and stretched my fascia and calf muscles and have quickly "curred" the PF without relief of the metatarsal pain.
Last Friday I had an MRI and receive the results this morning. Stress Fracture of the 2nd metatarsal head coupled with tendinitis of the joint of my second toe.
Pick up a boot tonight and am told that I'll be wearing that thing for a month. (I will be going crazy, I'm a fast walker by nature and this thing is going to slow me down at the office.)
From a tri season, I'm OK with it. I was planning on taking it easy this year anyway with Timberman being the only race of the season. As long as I can heal up within 4 weeks, maybe, just maybe I'll still be able to have a good race in August.