More setbacks.

It is hard for me to tell if running is making my foot worse, or if my entire experiment is just not leading to any improvements.

I had a glorious run on Tuesday. My foot didn't bother me at all, and everything felt fine. On Wednesday, I went to a talk at MIT and when it was over, the weather was just so stunningly beautiful that I felt the urge to walk through my city. I walked across the Longfellow Bridge, and the sun was setting over the Charles. The skyline was lit up in the most magnificent shade of orange light, people from Community Boating were flitting across the water in sailboats and kayaks, and runners were jogging along the Esplanade enjoying the view as much as I was. I walked all the way from MIT to Park St station in the city, which is about two miles.

Yesterday, I decided that since I no longer have a monthly pass for the T and since I wanted to surprise J with some books from the BPL, I would walk to the library from BU and then get on the train at Back Bay. This also is about a two mile walk.

So in grand total, we have 1.2 miles of running and 1.1 miles of walking on Tuesday (holy crap, just realized we ran more than we walked! Awesome!), about 2 miles of walking on Wednesday, and 1.75 miles of walking on Thursday. Grand total? Whole lot of accessory navicular pain on Thursday night.

We had some friends over on Thursday night, and I was sitting pretty much all night long with an ice pack on my foot. It sucked. I felt like a jerk because I was fairly useless with helping J cook and clean and entertain our guests. I just sat in a chair with ice on my foot.

I really was hoping that running (which I now love and am loathe to stop) would somehow help, despite the fact that most people agree that all you can do for accessory navicular syndrome is be sedentary. Argh, I don't buy it! I'm going back to trying to walk with a forefoot strike, similar to how I run, since I didn't have any pain at all in the two weeks or so when I did that... we'll see how it goes.