I ran a little over 14 miles last night. My training plan called for 20. However, I decided to flip flop last weekend and next weekend due to the foot injury. That meant I would do 16 last night. However, my foot started to get angry so I stopped at 14. Although I would have loved to have run 16, I'll take 14 at this point. I was actually surprised my foot did that well.

I will add that I am not struggling fitness-wise (yet). I've had to skip runs to rest my foot, but I had several more miles in me in terms of legs and cardio...Basically, everything felt great except for the foot. And even the foot didn't feel horrible. It's been worse, but I didn't want to push my luck.

My saving grace recently (when I've been forced to rest my foot) is the Olympics. I was always really into the Olympics as a kid, and I still love them as an adult. I usually run in the evenings at about 7 pm--depending on how far I need to run. Instead of running, I now sit down for the primetime Olympics show, so that's helped me to not feel the void of my usual evening activity. In that respect, I guess the timing of my injury isn't horrible.

I am not running today but will give it a try again tomorrow. It's day to day with the foot but I am feeling much more positive than I was a few days ago. I read somewhere that if you are returning from injury you should do 75% of your training for a week or so, and I am going to try that to see if I can balance continuing to train with recovery.