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7-19-13 New Pains


So I did my third run this week around noon today. There was a great thing that happened, I ran 10 minutes without stopping, walked at a brisk pace for about a minute and a half and finished off my first mile. I can consistently get a 13 minute mile, which I am excited about. After I ran a little more (about 2 minutes) my foot started hurting. It was my left foot, along the joint on the top of my foot. My underpronating issue I had when I started it going away, and that's another good thing. So good things are happening and it has me somewhat excited. It's my ankle now and breathing!!!!!! So when I go to the doctor on Monday I will talk to him about my ankle too. His specialty is sports medicine and family practice so I hope I can get some incite as to why my body is hating me right now. About the stretching before hand today... that didn't happen but I did get some massage leg work done by my amazing massage therapist wife last night.

I am considering heading out again later this evening to see if the ankle thing persists, I wonder if it's due to my shoes and that fact that they are what they are.

Again, I am open to feed back. It means a lot to me. Also thank you for visiting my blog.

On a side note, my illustration portfolio website will be up and going within the next month, so I will post a link to that once it's active.

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