Peroneus Longus, Won’t thou please healith

It’s been 2 weeks since my first marathon, and I must say that all the aches and pains that caused me to say that I’d never ever ever do a marathon again have left me.

A week ago I was beginning to think that I’d like to do another marathon.

A week ago I was also sitting in the doctor’s office praying that my foot didn’t have a stress fracture. There was pain and swelling, but the pain only came when I walked and the swelling accompanied the walking. What can I say, I needed to walk, my poor muscles weren’t going to move if I didn’t. Luckily for me, there was no bruising and that ruled out stress fracture but it didn’t rule out the severely pulled peroneus longus tendon that goes from the top of my foot and kindof wraps itself around that boney ball on the side of my foot and then up the ankle.

A week ago, I was barely walking.

This week, I’m ready to go running again, or cycling at a minimum. There’s no more pain or swelling and that is a massive temptation for me to automatically break the 1 month of healing rule that was placed before me during that doctor’s visit.

This week I’m also sure I’d like to do another marathon.

I’ve got 3 more weeks to go before I can resume normal activity, and I’m itching to to resume normal activity.