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Well, I am nearly finished paying the price for my brilliant plan of running 30 days in a row.  After lots of phsyiotherapy and no improvement, I finally went to a podiatrist.  This particular podiatrist was very kind to me and did not seem to have any issues with my barefoot running.  He told me that I have sprained one of my tarsal joints from ‘too much too soon’ and from tacking a race on at day 18.  I was skeptical when he taped my foot up and told me that would help, but it has been just over a week and the tape has worked wonders.  I have done two (barefoot of course) runs and I have no pain.  I guess my joint just needed a little immobilizing and rest.

Of course now I am walking around barefoot with tape on my foot and everyone is saying “I TOLD you you would cut your foot!”.  I just laugh and smile.  I can’t debate that my foot is injured from stupidity, even if it’s not the stupidity to which people are referring!

We have had the most spectacular weather this week after a long, long winter of windy, rainy, damp-to-the-bone days.  With the sun out I just want to roll around on the ground absorbing the heat from the ground.  Being barefoot is that much more wonderful when you can feel the heat from the ground.

It’s supposed to be nasty weather again this weekend so I’m going to get outside and play as much as possible while it’s warm.

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