Still Waiting

After another weekend of cross training Russ finally let me test out my legs today. My right leg felt 100% and the left was only a bit tight on the side, so I went to the training room to get heated and then warmed up for 20 minutes on the elliptical. After that I ran 2 miles on the treadmill. Everything felt great for about 10 minutes, and then my right leg (the one that I'd thought was back to full health) started to get a little sore again. The left leg felt fine. I finished up another 20 minutes on the bike. Russ took out my most recent heel wedge and gave me some cushy gel supports instead, which feel nice and soft-the only problem is that I don't feel them when I'm actually running because my heels never touch the ground. I've explained this numerous times but the trainers all still seem to think that heel supports are somehow going to magically make a difference. At least they don't make anything worse, so I can't complain.

While I was sitting in the ice bath and talking to Fife about how I've hardly had a healthy moment the past year and a half, Russ walked in and started listening to the conversation. He said that maybe I can go back to training and ignore my leg as long as it doesn't get worse. That's exactly what I was thinking of doing. I've found that many of my injuries don't really "go away" after I've rested and allowed them to heal. They continue to provide small, noticeable (yet not hampering) pains for sometimes months after I've returned to regular training, until one day I simply forget about them only to think back on it weeks later and realize everything feels normal again. That's probably how this one'll work out as well.