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Wednesday, June 3. 2009
Thanks to these..
 High arches causing this...  Inward-rolling ankles aka overpronation I now have a case of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome. Podiatrist said I'm "textbook". Yay. My MTSS is characterized by pain and tenderness in the inside leg above my ankle. As an added bonus, I have some swelling too. I usually have pain when I start out running, then it goes away after about 15 minutes only to flare up about an hour after I'm done. The tenderness is always there, but the pain typically goes away the next day. So, basically my ankles roll inward excessively putting stress on the muscles and tendons that run up the inside of my leg causing pain & swelling. Podiatrist says "We can fix you".  Getting cast for custom orthotics These little little plaster slippers get shipped off to some place in New York where goo gets poured into them to make a cast of my foot. My custom orthotics get made from those casts. They should be here in three weeks. Then I have a two week adjustment period where I’ll wear them walking around (at work, etc), but not running. Then, RUN! In the meantime, Podiatrist put me on some serious anti-inflammatory drugs to get the swelling down and and make my inflamed tendons happier. I can still run during this period, I just have to take it easy. Oh, and the cost of getting me running pain-free? Just under $550. They’d better come with a money-back guarantee. |
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This was my third year running the Fox Cities (insert big sponsor here) Half Marathon. The first year I was very undertrained, not to mention 10-15 pounds heavier. My longest run was 10 miles, the last five of which I did after turni
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