I was running last night on some rocky trails and about 35 minutes into the run when the fat pad of my right foot started to get irritated. After a while it really hurt where every rock the i stepped on felt like a knife in my foot. The pain was very centralized around the base of the 3rd metatarsal. When I got done running I iced it for 15 minutes and noticed distinct bruising all around that 3rd metatarsal area.
I have never had any running related injuries so, this is kind of weird. I had no prior pains to warn me, the injury was kind of 'out of the blue.' I have thought of the obvious big name injuries, stress fracture, morton's neuroma, etc. Any other ideas, suggestions.
This morning it is "tender."