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Playing football
By Andy | October 19, 2007
In my last post I said that a day makes a lot of difference – how right I was! I went to a circuit class at the Leisure centre on Wednesday and all went well until we had a quick 5-a-side warm down after the class.
Well if you put 10 men in a room and throw in a round object the results are obvious. Somehow all tiredness goes out the window and the competitive spirit kicks in. Quite literally in my case as I aimed a full-on kick at the ball and connected firmly with someones shoe which was firmly planted on the ground. I can only compare it to kicking a brick wall and with the usual running trainers soft toe non-support my toes and front of foot took the brunt of it. I limped home in great pain.
Woke up Thursday and examined the damage, foot had enlarged somewhat and turned a black /purple colour across the front and along the toes – not pretty. So I did what all sensible people do and went for a short run just to check it all works. The first couple of miles were painful but seemed to numb after that so I returned reasonably happy. Now 24 hours later the foot looks awful but feels a lot better so it won’t stop me – as a famous quote goes – “It’s only a flesh wound!”.
Thursday evening was spent with one of the trainers at the centre putting together a gym training plan to prepare me for the rigours of running with a pack again. A bit apprehensive as it involves a lot more weights than I have ever done before. Well, if it doesn’t help my running I can always do some upper body modelling with a bit of help from an airbrush. I intend to do the program twice a week until the end of the year when I will get it reviewed again.
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