Walk Running part 1

Foot pain forced me to stopped running back in July. I had literally come to the breaking point where I needed to fully heal my torn plantar fascia before I was going to run well. Two weeks post-running I received an ultrasound which revealed that my injured tissues were over double the normal thickness, very rough and totally uneven. This is the result of my plantar fascia being torn and then healing significantly thicker to withstand the forces as I continued to run on a sore foot.  Stupid on my part!

For the last month I've been receiving deep tissue massage to try and reverse the damage I caused over the last 6 months by breaking up the stubbon scar tissue. My foot is still not 100%, it's taking a really long time to heal but I'm ready to introduce walk-runs. Now the only problem is I followed the term "introduce" a little too loosely. I started with a 2 minute run and 3 walk and quickly bumped it to 3 minute run. When I woke up with a sore-ish foot I relaized this was not working. I took off another week and then reintroduced a 1 min run and 4 min walk like I should have at the beginning. It's terrible, I just want to run, but I'm ready to do it right this time. I'm trowing my impatience to the wind and finally ready to listen to my body.

So here I am: 1 min run and 4 min walk with a rest day in between each run day. I've since set out for 1.5 min run and 3.5 min walk and after a tender foot I'm going to attempt this again before progressing to 2 mins of running. I have talked with my massage therapist about the tenderness and discussed that there could be some tenderness as the foot tissues adjust to an increased workload but they should subside as I progress. Deep down, when I push my stubbornness to the side, I know that I'm following the right recovery path for my body. I'm choosing to do this walk-run right but I really do miss the actual run....
xo
Becks