It’s got nothing to do with the run, it just flared up suddenly a few hours ago. On Wednesday, at the Tri-Leisure Centre I practiced a few kicks on the bag and in one of the front thrust kicks, I missed and I just caught the bottom of the bag with my right big toe. It got bent back at an unhappy angle and maybe this soreness is now manifesting itself. As you might know, this particular toe has (allegedly) no cartilage and is an ongoing MTP problem. The lucky toe managed to escape surgery and has been very pain free lately. So I hope this is just a temporary setback. I’ll just take a whack of Ibu and hope it will be alright for karate tomorrow.
The run was a royal pain because it wasn’t cold enough to make the snow not stick, nor was it warm enough to melt the roads to bare asphalt. So the “hovering around zero snow” on the roads stuck to the bottom of my shoes, turning my footwear from agile running shoes to walking on tall pointy upside down ice cream cones. I had to stop and scrape the sticky snow off my feet, or shuffle them too much to have any fun. And the snow turned to that “almost ice” kind of dense white Teflon on the roads. It made me regret not taking my Yaktrax.
Live Life or Die Trying!