Foot pain after running
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Guys
I'm 42, never been particularly fit, but been training in the gym and running a few times a week since January. Did a 10k run yesterday (52mins, personal best woohoo!) and although I was fine when running, I started to get pain in my foot in the evening and it's really bad today.
It's on my right foot, on the top, at the outside, along the bony part. It's worse roughly halfway between my outside ankle and my big toe. It's most painful if I try to curl my toes upwards and lift them.
Any ideas? Wrong trainers? Never had it before and now it's really bad. Supposed to be doing an organised 10k this coming weekend but right now walking 10 metres is bloody painful let alone running 10k. Have I got any hope of being sorted in time?
I'm then supposed to be skiing a couple of weeks after that. I won't risk the run if there's any chance of jeopardising the ski trip.
Any thoughts on what I've done and treatment most appreciated...I know very little about running and any science behind it!
Thanks
I'm 42, never been particularly fit, but been training in the gym and running a few times a week since January. Did a 10k run yesterday (52mins, personal best woohoo!) and although I was fine when running, I started to get pain in my foot in the evening and it's really bad today.
It's on my right foot, on the top, at the outside, along the bony part. It's worse roughly halfway between my outside ankle and my big toe. It's most painful if I try to curl my toes upwards and lift them.
Any ideas? Wrong trainers? Never had it before and now it's really bad. Supposed to be doing an organised 10k this coming weekend but right now walking 10 metres is bloody painful let alone running 10k. Have I got any hope of being sorted in time?
I'm then supposed to be skiing a couple of weeks after that. I won't risk the run if there's any chance of jeopardising the ski trip.
Any thoughts on what I've done and treatment most appreciated...I know very little about running and any science behind it!
Thanks
Cheers guys. I see no reason why it would be broken as I just went for a run...no trips or slips. Felt fine during the run, it only got painful afterwards.
But I think I will avoid the 10k this weekend and rest if for skiing...its getting better but still painful. I'd be gutted if I went back to square one and new as soon as I put a ski boot on I only had a few runs in me.
But I think I will avoid the 10k this weekend and rest if for skiing...its getting better but still painful. I'd be gutted if I went back to square one and new as soon as I put a ski boot on I only had a few runs in me.
Forestfire...quite possibly too much too soon. I've not run for years...probably over 10 years, due to back pain. I have been going to the gym since new year, built up some cardio fitness on the vario etc, and I've basically gone treadmill for 10 mins, 15mins, 20mins, 5k, 10k and then out on the roads, a few 6 k runs and two 10k runs. The pain started after 10k number 2.
5ohmustang...see above...brand new and they've only been used for the road run, so they are brand new with about 40k on them.
Cold...hmmm, I wonder. I'm usually a 10.5 (although sometimes 10, sometimes 11) and although these feel fine, it almost looks like they might be too wide at the point where the lacing stops and the flat bit behind my toes starts, because the material is a bit rucked up there. I do wonder if I overdid it on the laces...thinking back I might even have thought to myself "is that too tight?" but once I got running it seemed fine.
SamH216...a Nike store has just opened near me, should they be able to do that for me? I am just an amateur, no real desire to take this massively seriously (more of a cyclist anyway). So I don't want to spend gazillions of pounds on proper fitment etc, however I do fully understand that doing 10k probably does need a bit of science. What roughly should I be paying for the analysis and the shoes? (Or is it part and parcel like buying ski boots?)
Dave_s13, grumbledoak's picture above, right foot, outer metatarsal, pretty much all along the green bit. That said, sometimes the pain seems to "shift" so rather than being on top of my foot, it rolled underneath (same bone though). But generally on the top/outer edge.
Bulldong...any particular exercises to do here?
Thanks guys...much appreciated.
5ohmustang...see above...brand new and they've only been used for the road run, so they are brand new with about 40k on them.
Cold...hmmm, I wonder. I'm usually a 10.5 (although sometimes 10, sometimes 11) and although these feel fine, it almost looks like they might be too wide at the point where the lacing stops and the flat bit behind my toes starts, because the material is a bit rucked up there. I do wonder if I overdid it on the laces...thinking back I might even have thought to myself "is that too tight?" but once I got running it seemed fine.
SamH216...a Nike store has just opened near me, should they be able to do that for me? I am just an amateur, no real desire to take this massively seriously (more of a cyclist anyway). So I don't want to spend gazillions of pounds on proper fitment etc, however I do fully understand that doing 10k probably does need a bit of science. What roughly should I be paying for the analysis and the shoes? (Or is it part and parcel like buying ski boots?)
Dave_s13, grumbledoak's picture above, right foot, outer metatarsal, pretty much all along the green bit. That said, sometimes the pain seems to "shift" so rather than being on top of my foot, it rolled underneath (same bone though). But generally on the top/outer edge.
Bulldong...any particular exercises to do here?
Thanks guys...much appreciated.
bulldong said:
One question. Do you actually like running? If you're trying to get fit there are better ways of doing it. I find running soul destroying.
Compared to cycling & dinghy sailing which are "my" sports it's nowhere near as much fun, however both of those are much more of a faff. I'm lucky enough to live in a fairly rural area so the great thing is it's 5 mins to put my kit on and off I go, and after half an hour I feel like I've had worthwhile exercise. A bike ride is much more of a time commitment IMHO.So I gave it a rest for a few weeks to make sure I'd be able to ski, which was fine. I think all I basically did was do the laces up too tight...as simple as that. Worked it out when I put my trainers back on and thought they were way too tight. Also spoke to a runner friend of mine who said he knows of someone who buys trainers a size up from his normal shoes.
Did 5k in the same shoes laced more loosely and all was well. Schoolboy error...lesson learned!
Did 5k in the same shoes laced more loosely and all was well. Schoolboy error...lesson learned!
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