It is Friday and I find myself with only 6 miles for the week. Tomorrow we are expecting a day of freezing rain, so I don’t see getting many miles in then. Sunday I have an eight mile run planned, 4 loops of a nature park in Portland. We’ll see if weather permits.

So today I decided to do a long run to make up for my short week and a possible short remainder of the week. I made my way around my base run with added loops and additional sections. I ended up with 9.5 miles and felt really good doing it, I could have easily gone further. But it was cold and I was hungry, so I ended it.

One weird thing happened on this run. About 2.5 miles into it I got a funny feeling on my right heel which quickly felt like I had a blister hot spot coming or like I had something in my shoe (or both). I stopped and adjusted my shoe and the feeling remained, but it felt better. I thought about walking, but realized that a 2.5 mile walk wouldn’t do much better than a 2.5 mile run. My shoes weren’t wet and I have never had any problem like this before with my feet and shoes. So I started up and decided to run with a pronounced mid-strike rather than on my heel or ball of my feet. It felt a bit better, but still a concern. The my running thoughts drifted away and the next time I thought of it was five miles later, this time with no odd feeling at all. Strange and ms-y.