It’s a grey monday morning and I’m sitting at home behind my PC. I’m not at work because I have a rather irritating problem: I can hardly walk because I hurt my left foot. So what happened?
Well, since two weeks I’m jogging/running again. I signed up for this as part of my news years resolutions. The goal is to run the 10km on May 2nd when we have the marathon of Almere. I haven’t done anything fysical for the last 2 years so off course I have no stamina whatsoever. We train two times a week: wednesday evening and sunday morning. Last wednesday we did a so called “interval training” which is meant to enhance your stamina. Afterwards my foot was already hurting a bit, but I knew I had 3 day to recover, so yesterday morning I just started to run again.
I had a few hestitations but I started out running. We were supposed to run for 30 minutes, but after 15 minutes I just had to stop. I could not run anymore and even walking hurt like hell. Afterwards I could barely drive home cause even pushing the clutch hurt me. Luckily its only a few minutes drive.
However: I bought a brand new printer (Lexmark i3) saturday, but it turned out a DOA. So I had to go exchange it. The shop were I bought it (Media Markt) luckily has a huge parking lot next to it so I didn’t have to walk that far. After taking a few painkillers (generic over the counter stuff) I just embarked and went to exchange it.
I always am a bit hestitant to complain about pain and such since it’s so relative (my girlfriend has chronic pain), but let me tell you; you really appreciate the fact that you can walk and run once you feel how much such a simple task can hurt. So when I got home and installed my printer, I was happy to put my foot up and start relaxing.