Anyway, after running on it for a while and "hoping" that it would go away (with the pain getting steadily worse), I figured out that I just had to stay off of it and do my therapeutic exercises, stretching, yada, yada, to finally get over it. It's been 3 weeks since I've run, and I'm feeling like a pent-up Crack Head on steroids. But the foot is more flexible and feeling better, now. I'll run a little this week and next.
Am I still going to do my 7th consecutive Rocky Raccoon 100-mile trail run on February 7th??? Yep, I wouldn't miss it for the world. I'm going to do it on "sheer guts and muscle memory." I had a lot of pain in last year's race, due to a "wardrobe malfunction." Hopefully, this year pain won't be as much of a factor. It's interesting, but Willie Lambert is basically in the same boat with his foot, and he made the same "muscle memory" statement about his ambitions for this year's RR100. I wish him and all of the other Midwesterners good luck for this year's Rocky. We'll also have our Texas contingent, the Tejas Trail Nerds there and participating (in their own back yard).
I'm still collecting for the American Cancer Society for the Rocky Raccoon 100. It'll be a rough one for me, but I'm just crazy and tough enough to be up to the task. Please participate!
Speaking of tough, Kyle Amos and tony Clark pegged another 100-miler together...probably the toughest in the Western Hemisphere, just shy of Hardrock. Yep, the HURT 100. They came in together in 17th place, overall. With more than half the field either DNF'ing or dropping out at the 100K distance, this is an impressive finish for two Kansan Flatlanders!
Part of the root-infested course.
