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BLUF: I have muscle/tendon pain on the outside of the left foot, located near the 5th metatarsal. X-Rays showed no structural damage. The doctor at the urgent care seemed to agree with me that it was inflammation of the peroneal tendon. I received a referral today to see a sports medicine specialist on Wednesday, 12/2. 20160105 is when I leave for 11x OSUT. I have played sports my whole life and have no history of foot injury and have never felt the need to have my gait/foot analyzed as generic shoes have always done the trick. My plan right now is to let the situation develop by seeing the specialist, get a prognosis, and contact my recruiter to review options if necessary.
Situation: This summer, towards the end of July, I was averaging 15-20 miles per week, in shoes that by this point were completely worn out. Virtually 100% of my logged mileage is on asphalt or a country gravel road. My workouts at the time typically included an 8+ mile long run, 2-2.5 cumulative miles of sprints ranging from .25-.5 miles, and either 30/30 sprints or a tempo run. I suffered a minor groin injury (now 100%) playing soccer, so I took 2 weeks off running. After returning and completing two 5 mile runs (same shoes), I was forced to stop due to fairly severe pain. The sole of my left foot near the heel became swollen. I applied RICE and the pain localized to where it is now, near the 5th metatarsal. My educated guess after research was that this was due to inflammation of the peroneal tendon, cumulative wear from horrible footwear, and not running in said shoes for two weeks.
After some more RICE and trial and error, it seemed that the length of the run, rather than intensity, instigated pain. I resumed running in new shoes (random Asics that were comfortable and relatively cheap) with my “long runs” now starting at 2 miles. I had one sprint day and 2 “long run” days, with each bumping up by .25 miles. On 11/2/2015 I had slowly built up to a 5 mile long run with absolutely no pain over the past weeks. Feeling confident and still applying the cumulative 10% rule I ran 6 miles on 11/9/2015 with no pain. With my ship date getting close, I thought I would try to be smart and use caution for once and take a week (11/16) off from running.
Upon resuming my running workouts on 11/23, I began to experience pain on mile 4 of 6, but had no choice except to finish. I figured the pain was a minor setback resulting from stupidity, but that I would be fine if I took the rest of the week off and stuck to short distance workouts until OSUT. Today, I was going to go conservative with a short 2 mile tempo run, but began to feel pain at the 1 mile turn-around point. The pain was minor, maybe a 2 or 3 of 10, but I knew it was the same injury and something was jacked up, so I immediately drove to the local urgent care once I made it back. My insurance dictates that I need a referral to see a specialist. Right now I have very little, if any, pain while walking, and if history is an indication, I should have absolutely no walking pain tomorrow.
As mentioned above, I have seen a doctor and will see a specialist on Wednesday. In the short inspection today, the doctor mentioned that my arches might be an ancillary cause as well. This is the first I have ever heard of this, so I will bring it up on Wednesday. My hope is that he is right and that a few weeks rest and better shoes might fix everything, but I realize hope is not a plan. Thus I came here to hopefully get some perspective or experiences. If that is not possible with the information provided, I will report back on Wednesday after my appointment to provide some more detail. Thank you for reading this far, I tried to keep it short while not omitting needed details. I realize there might not be much to add, (I saw the thread from someone hurt before AF BMT) but since I jumped the gun and mentioned this “situation” in my intro I figured clarification was needed.
Situation: This summer, towards the end of July, I was averaging 15-20 miles per week, in shoes that by this point were completely worn out. Virtually 100% of my logged mileage is on asphalt or a country gravel road. My workouts at the time typically included an 8+ mile long run, 2-2.5 cumulative miles of sprints ranging from .25-.5 miles, and either 30/30 sprints or a tempo run. I suffered a minor groin injury (now 100%) playing soccer, so I took 2 weeks off running. After returning and completing two 5 mile runs (same shoes), I was forced to stop due to fairly severe pain. The sole of my left foot near the heel became swollen. I applied RICE and the pain localized to where it is now, near the 5th metatarsal. My educated guess after research was that this was due to inflammation of the peroneal tendon, cumulative wear from horrible footwear, and not running in said shoes for two weeks.
After some more RICE and trial and error, it seemed that the length of the run, rather than intensity, instigated pain. I resumed running in new shoes (random Asics that were comfortable and relatively cheap) with my “long runs” now starting at 2 miles. I had one sprint day and 2 “long run” days, with each bumping up by .25 miles. On 11/2/2015 I had slowly built up to a 5 mile long run with absolutely no pain over the past weeks. Feeling confident and still applying the cumulative 10% rule I ran 6 miles on 11/9/2015 with no pain. With my ship date getting close, I thought I would try to be smart and use caution for once and take a week (11/16) off from running.
Upon resuming my running workouts on 11/23, I began to experience pain on mile 4 of 6, but had no choice except to finish. I figured the pain was a minor setback resulting from stupidity, but that I would be fine if I took the rest of the week off and stuck to short distance workouts until OSUT. Today, I was going to go conservative with a short 2 mile tempo run, but began to feel pain at the 1 mile turn-around point. The pain was minor, maybe a 2 or 3 of 10, but I knew it was the same injury and something was jacked up, so I immediately drove to the local urgent care once I made it back. My insurance dictates that I need a referral to see a specialist. Right now I have very little, if any, pain while walking, and if history is an indication, I should have absolutely no walking pain tomorrow.
As mentioned above, I have seen a doctor and will see a specialist on Wednesday. In the short inspection today, the doctor mentioned that my arches might be an ancillary cause as well. This is the first I have ever heard of this, so I will bring it up on Wednesday. My hope is that he is right and that a few weeks rest and better shoes might fix everything, but I realize hope is not a plan. Thus I came here to hopefully get some perspective or experiences. If that is not possible with the information provided, I will report back on Wednesday after my appointment to provide some more detail. Thank you for reading this far, I tried to keep it short while not omitting needed details. I realize there might not be much to add, (I saw the thread from someone hurt before AF BMT) but since I jumped the gun and mentioned this “situation” in my intro I figured clarification was needed.