Thursday, 15 February 2024

Self Diagnosis

First post of 2024, and it's February already!  I've already been on holiday (10 days in Cozumel), picked up an odd running injury (morten's neuroma) and started the 7 month training plan.  

The injury started around Christmas and progressively got worse until around mid-Jan when I realised it was not going away quickly.  A diagnosis by Dr. Google brought me to mortens neuroma, a nerve related issue between the 3rd and 4th toe, commonly brought about by wearing high heels and narrow shoes evidently.  I ruled out the high heels as a possible cause but immediately invested in some wide fit running shoes.  In summary, it's not getting worse, but I don't think it's getting better either.  Seems to me that it probably took a long time getting to where it is now, so will take a long time getting back to where it was.  Time will tell, but it's not putting me off running too much, and after a mile or 3 I can't feel it anyway.

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