My Return to Running

After finishing four marathons and one half marathon (and a handful of shorter distance races), I stopped running at the end of 2006.My plantar fasciitis was so bad that I didn’t run much for the next two years.I did a few local 5Ks, but that was pretty much it.I stretched, iced, took physical therapy, and tried other things to heal the plantar fasciitis.But every time I started running again, back it came.
Finally, I was able to run more regularly and by 2009 I was running short distances.And then I had a bad year of tension headaches (pretty much the pain of a migraine without the other symptoms), and they were so frequent that I felt like at all times I either had a headache, was recovering from a headache, or was trying to take care of things that I missed because of a headache.So, my running was very sporadic for another couple years, as I just couldn’t dedicate myself.
Then Spring of 2011 rolled around and the headaches were mostly under control (thank you, acupuncture!).So, I sta…
Finally, I was able to run more regularly and by 2009 I was running short distances.And then I had a bad year of tension headaches (pretty much the pain of a migraine without the other symptoms), and they were so frequent that I felt like at all times I either had a headache, was recovering from a headache, or was trying to take care of things that I missed because of a headache.So, my running was very sporadic for another couple years, as I just couldn’t dedicate myself.
Then Spring of 2011 rolled around and the headaches were mostly under control (thank you, acupuncture!).So, I sta…