Injured

The specialist Doctor said to me “NO RUNNING FOR A FEW WEEKS!”, you need to rest your injured feet, he added. That was the saddest thing anyone could said to me, running is like air for me, without it i could not breath. I felt like crying there and then, but think against it (the Doctor might think i have a mental breakdown). When i ran, there is no past or future, just me floating in a moment of time. What could a adrenaline junkie like me to do? The doctor said you can still swims, but i can’t (literally)…i do not know how to swim, never learn how, it’s my very own achilles’ heel.

Rewind back a week before..

It was during ENR, my second HM and it was tough and my feet was killing me. After the race, i could hardly walks, actually i preferred crawling to the feeder bus stand in front of MMU’s gate. I took the bus to P7 parking lot with Che that night, when we arrived at the P7 bus stop, i calculated roughly about 200-300 meters to my car from the bus stop. I was a walking zombie, i cannot stand to walk any longer, felt like sitting there in P7 bus stop until next morning. Che was kind enough to offer carrying me to my car, i thanked him but NO thanks. It was dark (the P7 area) and people might get the wrong impressions..

The morning after was a killer! I really was in humongous amount of pain when woke up, the pains came from my left feet! (Right feet was in normal condition). I better get my feet a proper check-up, after few days of constant nagging from the missus, on one fine Sunday morning (yesterday), i went to a Specialist clinic in Subang. The Doctor diagnosed me with -

1. Plantar Fasciitis

2. Achilles tendinitis.

Now i am officially injured, i been injured all this while since December 09’, i think right after Malakoff 12 km run. I thought it was nothing, but definitely it’s something! No wonder i was always in pains during training and races, guess what, i endured and ran two HM with injured feet during this time. Whenever i was in pains during the races, i always told myself don’t be a sissy and man-up, that was my mental challenges and it was not easy to go on running, especially when your feet gave up on you. It’s really a wonder on what our mind can do to overcome physical shortcomings.

After the doctor prescribed me with some medications, I asked the doctor to write a reference letter for me to go to PPUM for further treatments. Today, i registered myself in PPUM and was checked at PPUM’s Sport Clinic, the nice doctor there asked me to do lotsa stretching during my rest period and made appointments (tomorrow) for me to have my left feet X-ray and Ultra-sound. Before i left, the doctor reminded me ‘NO RUNNING PLS”..hu hu (i am crying in my heart now). Hopefully, i will recovered long before SCKLIM in June, i won’t miss that for the world, especially to see my marathon virgin friends running the FM.