First weekend in the off-season

Still NOTHING.

Not a complaint. But if this keeps up it will soon be one! It's been a week since the race, I feel like I'm wasting away. No, really. I don't feel strong or fluid. So I gotta focus more on moving, stretching, and rolling. Or I will tighten up and have other problems. 

My leg is slowly improving. Sometimes I can feel the where I envision the stress fracture is on the lateral side of the leg. Especially when I bump the leg (like Sugar's tail or lying on my right side in bed). This pain is like a dull ache. But a vast majority of the pain is still up the front of the leg, from the ankle to about 1/3rd of the way up. It's not in the bone, it feels like soft tissue. The pain is a burn, like I have an open wound. Sometimes I even look at it to see if I'm bruising or cut or what's going on. 

Flexibility is still minimal. Here on Monday I have a few millimeters of dorsiflexion. I have more if I let my foot drop a little then pick it up. And speaking of that, my foot doesn't drop much either. It will if I let it hang, but to point my toes to put pants on is difficult. It's like my foot is fixed in this position for now. 

I'm onto putting warm packs on it, and still trying to elevate when I can. It seems like sitting or swelling makes it worse, but like many pains it hurts more at night anyway. So to say it's swelling or just tired or hurting more at night, can't say. 

I haven't "twanged" the foot in a day or two, those first days I would take a wrong step or catch my shoe on something and it would send me into a 8-9 out of 10 pain. Oh, maybe a 7-8. Quit being such a pansy! 

When I think about it, I try to work on flexion and mobility. Oooh it hurts to do that. 

I noticed this morning that the toenail on the 4th toe on my left foot is starting to turn colors, I thought that would happen based on how it felt in the race. 

Oh and just for fun I'm now on day 2 of a NSNG challenge. It's so similar to what I do anyway. I like challenges I guess.

RM asked if I satisfied my emotional/mental reward at this race. My reply: "YES I did hit my reward. That feeling of being put through the wringer, of having to dig deep, of being emotionally exhausted, of hitting a bottom that required an inner faith and belief that you can't summon up any other time. I have no regrets about the leg injury, however a bit worried about my ability to once again put myself in a state of denial that allows such damage to occur. Nothing new I guess."