Toe issues

Against my will this morning, I got myself out of bed to run.  I even managed a total of 2.36 miles running and 0.67 miles walking.  I know.  Not too impressive.  That's ok.  Before I ran, I walked quite a ways. My toe kept hurting then feeling perfectly fine, then hurting again, repeat.  I've learned better than to run on an injury in training and make it worse.  But, I tried running a bit anyway, and the slight pain only popped up a couple times and very briefly.  It's very odd.

The Podrunner podcast Definitive helped me along today.  It even was coming to a peak right as I was making my final uphill push towards home.  Felt good!  I was thinking about how I respond to listening to music while running.  I have a long history of moving to music beats.  When I was active in making music, my foot would tap the beat, in marching band of course my feet were dropping in time to the beats, and hubby and I also competed for a while at a lower level in ballroom dancing.  It's no wonder that I like to move my legs to a beat!

I had thought of going to a 5k tomorrow.  I'm not sure my feet are up to that yet.  I know I could finish, but I'm not sure it's the best idea quite yet.

Toe issues...

Ok, so NOW it's my TOE!  I stubbed it on the carpet.  Yes, on the carpet.  Nothing exciting like the wall or the chair, just caught it on the carpet.  It was surprisingly painful that day (Saturday) and now, on Tuesday, it has lessened, but it's still there.  So, I cut my run short this morning so as not to make it worse.  Actually, mother nature was calling, which helped seal the deal.  When I woke up, it was raining, but by the time I got outside, there was a clearing in the rain.  There was no lightning this time, which has been a rare situation lately.  I ran (what little that was) with Podrunner.  I hadn't done that in a while and I miss it!  In that short run, I saw three bunnies.

After the brief  (<0.5mile) run, I went to the basement to practice some kettlebell stuff.
With the 20# bell:
20 swings
20 alternating swings
10 L cleans
10 R cleans
20 swings
Then I tried some Turkish Getup stuff.  Those are definitely harder than they look.  Unweighted is fine.  With 20#?  Lots of stabilization required.  I might try for a while with a lighter dumbbell just to get the form down.