is this a good training plan after injury

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The plan looked good, but on the conservative side I think, though he did say it was case by case. I had a stress fracture in my 2nd metatarsal in June and six weeks was about right before I could start running on it again. I just finished my third 100 mile week of the last four today.

Honestly, it does hurt a little sometimes still. Also, looking back it seems like it was a very quick recovery, but when I was sitting around thinking about it and couldnt run, looking forward, it seemed like it would be an eternity. Its hard to be patient, but I didnt have a lot of races or anything planned so it made it easier. I did do a 1500 and two 5000s in October which were hard on me, but I didn,t get re-injured, and it helped me get some strength back.

Otherwise, I upped the calcium a lot and am keeping it up.

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Brent. wrote:

The plan looked good, but on the conservative side I think, though he did say it was case by case. I had a stress fracture in my 2nd metatarsal in June and six weeks was about right before I could start running on it again..

Curious -- how bad was your fracture? My podiatrist, who is NOT the overly cautious non-running type, has given me 12 weeks before running.

I am also a second metatarsal fracture -- mine is oblique in the shaft, and showed on the x-rays. Perhaps mine is just more serious?

If you have a chance, Id ask your podiatrist why so long. Perhaps he thinks it is that bad. Or perhaps he knows that no matter how long he says that youll be out there in half that time ;). Some docs are crafty, ya know!

Mine didnt show up on the x-rays, but it hurt like crap, which is why I bothered to have x-rays at all; I was worried that it may be more than a "simple" stress fracture---that and the fact that I actually felt it snap when it happened, though it didnt begin to hurt until later that night.

If you cannot ask without paying money, Id just go by feel, which, in the end, is all you really can do, whether it feels right in 4 weeks or in 18.

Hope you heal fast.

Good thoughts, and thank very much for the response.

Our breaks sound similar. Mine also didnt hurt until after, just a pop. And though the top of my foot was pretty sore, I never had a spot of pin-point excruciating pain. The break does show on X-ray, and did from the start, but just shows as an endpoint on one side -- Dr. thinks that the fracture curls under the shaft.

And, now at about 4 weeks in, it really doesnt hurt -- to the point where I keep forgetting my foot is broken, even though the break still showed on last weeks x-ray.

For this reason, Im hesitant to get too happy over the fact that it doesnt hurt now, or to use pain as my guide when returning.

Very good to see your story of a full recovery -- and I knock on wood to avoid jinxing you.