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RunEloiseRun
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Hi y'all.
I am currently in the midst of training for my first marathon on Oct. 7th and I think I may have an injury.
For the first five and a half weeks of training, I was purely running on the balls of my feet. I thought it was the best way to run and I ended up getting blood blisters on the inside of my right foot. I changed the way I was running once I saw the blisters and did some google-ing about them. I stopped running on the balls of my feet and started focusing on running the way I had previously ran the year before.
I was still getting terrible blisters so I decided to get new shoes. (Mine were pretty worn at that point.) I was wearing Mizuno Wave Rider 15s (a neutral shoe, even though all of last year I wore Wave Inspire 7s a stability shoe) and now I have been running in Wave Inspire 8s. I have no more blister problems, but now I have this achy feeling in my left foot. I have worn my WI8s on two runs now. The first run was 7.40 miles and the second run was 3 miles. The pain in my left foot started in the middle of the 4th mile on the first run in my new shoes. The pain is right in the curve of my foot before my heel. Not in the middle of the arch, a little lower, but again not in the heel.
I am not sure if it's the shoes causing this, the running itself, or something else.
Last year I ran a half marathon and experienced no problems.
I did gain back some weight this year and I did go a stretch without running....I just do not want to be sidelined for too long nor do I want to be plagued with this pain or make it a worse problem.
Any help, suggestions, or advice would be greatly appreciated!
I am currently in the midst of training for my first marathon on Oct. 7th and I think I may have an injury.
For the first five and a half weeks of training, I was purely running on the balls of my feet. I thought it was the best way to run and I ended up getting blood blisters on the inside of my right foot. I changed the way I was running once I saw the blisters and did some google-ing about them. I stopped running on the balls of my feet and started focusing on running the way I had previously ran the year before.
I was still getting terrible blisters so I decided to get new shoes. (Mine were pretty worn at that point.) I was wearing Mizuno Wave Rider 15s (a neutral shoe, even though all of last year I wore Wave Inspire 7s a stability shoe) and now I have been running in Wave Inspire 8s. I have no more blister problems, but now I have this achy feeling in my left foot. I have worn my WI8s on two runs now. The first run was 7.40 miles and the second run was 3 miles. The pain in my left foot started in the middle of the 4th mile on the first run in my new shoes. The pain is right in the curve of my foot before my heel. Not in the middle of the arch, a little lower, but again not in the heel.
I am not sure if it's the shoes causing this, the running itself, or something else.
Last year I ran a half marathon and experienced no problems.
I did gain back some weight this year and I did go a stretch without running....I just do not want to be sidelined for too long nor do I want to be plagued with this pain or make it a worse problem.
Any help, suggestions, or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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You have a lot of variables here, so it's going to be difficult to pinpoint one issue that is causing this pain, if it IS one issue.
First off, changing the way you run is just asking for trouble. Make major changes to your mechanics is going to put stresses on parts of your body that weren't there before. Unless you are experiencing problems and injuries, or your mechanics are REALLY bad, you should just leave them alone, except for little tweaks you gain from doing form drills and the like.
Shoes. Did you get fitted for them at a specialty store? Are you supposed to be in neutral or stability?
The pain sounds like it could be Plantar Fasciitis. Does it hurt when you are not running? Is the pain worse first thing in the morning/0 -
^^^This.
I know you said you did not have issues with Waive Inspire 7's but do know that a small change a company makes in a shoe can change the comfort level of it. I found I had to add heel lifts to the Nike's I wear in spite of no needs on the last 2 designs... Did you wear the new shoes at all before the 7.4 mile run to break them in? May be the newness too...0 -
I am supposed to be in stability shoes. I was fitted for the Inspire 7s. That's why I got the 8s a few days ago.
I did not wear them until my 7.4 run, which looking back may have been foolish.
I also am never changing my running mechanics again. I should have stuck to what was working.
At first, I only felt the pain on my two runs.
Then, (after a long day out yesterday with my two year old) I feel it constantly. I am practically limping because any pressure on that area of my left foot kills me.
Thank you so much for your responses!0 -
one trick I learned that caused some good relief when I had an issue was freezing a water bottle and rolling my foot on it periodically. It not only provided for icing of the foot but also helped loosen things up!0
