Doc's orders

Work on your cycling.

I've iced, rested a day, Motrin'ed, and my heel is a thousand times better. But there's still a bump. My doc friend saw it last night and told me I need to rest it so the aggravation can subside. I didn't understand. It's sooooooooooo much better, I said! No, it might look better, it might not be sore to the touch anymore, but it's not better. There's still a bump. Then he went on to talk all about the ligaments and tendons and bone on bone calcification and whatnot and what I retained was he wants me to take the next 2 days off of running.

Crap.

I need to run. I want to run. I ran yesterday, an easy 5 miles in the new shoes, and things felt good.

No, he said, you need to rest it. Let it heal inside. Your cycling and swimming are your tri weaknesses, right?

yes.

Then swim and cycle the next two days and check in with me then. Don't run until Saturday.

Dammit!

This guy knows his stuff. D, a 2:30 marathoner, broke his foot one June and G (doc) opened him up, put a pin in his foot, and D was running just minutes off his marathon PR in November. These days, he's better than he used to be. If G says take some days off, I'll do what the doc says.

So my bike and I will be spending some quality time together the next few days.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, because I think I'm passing on the Philly Distance Run in order to do a new sprint triathlon on LBI the same day...