Hold on to your hats ladies and gentlemen, I have taken up jogging!

And I'm not kidding this time. I have been jogging for about a week, and I keep increasing my times and stopping with the walking-breaks, and I'm really loving it. It's great. I can do it, and think about nothing. I don't have to think at all. I can just mindlessly jog. And beat my first time. And add on to my first time. I think I figured out the trick, and that trick is--don't go to fast. After years of doing all this other stuff, I haven't felt much work out pain in a long time...until now. It actually feels like you are working when you hurt a little. Who knew.

Anyhow, my recent jogging adventures have lead us to some other interesting things. First of all, I had to go to the podiatrist.

Have I mentioned that my podiatrist happens to be really young and really hot? OK, so not really young--maybe 30? He looks much younger than that though. And funny too. I guess he just got married in July. He told me yesterday that he's been a doctor for 5 years.

OK, so I needed to have my ingrown toenail removed. I have seen hot podiatrist for this a couple of times, and the last time I went it hurt. A lot. For some reason it didn't get numb. So even though he's a hottie, I was nervous to go back there. But all went well, it got numb, he explained that the reason it grew back in is basically because my body 'healed' the cauterization last time, and so it grew back. Totally common, no problem.

So while I was there, I told him I was getting into jogging, and looking online at good running shoes, but didn't know if I was a pronator or not. The websites said to ask your podiatrist, so...was I a pronator? He told me he thought I was, and that we should do some x-rays to check and be sure. So the x-rays were cool, it was cool to see my foot. But let me tell you how it happened, and the sucky part of the story:

Hottie Dr.: Hey, your x-ray shows that you are an overpronator, and you're just in time to ask about this, because check this out (hottie dr. puts x-ray up to light)
Elliottpp: (looking at x-ray of own foot) Oh. OK. So that's my foot. Wow, it's really big. What am I just in time for?
Hottie Dr.: Look at that (pointing at the jagged bone sticking from my heel).
Elliottpp: my heel?
Hottie Dr.: It's not supposed to look that way, it's supposed to be smooth and rounded. You have bone spurs on both of your heels.
Elliottpp: Hmm. Would that explain why my heels hurt when I walk barefoot?
Hottie Dr.: oh yeah.


So, That sucks. Hottie Dr. told me to ice my feet every day to help the muscle. He also told me to wear better shoes, and no more flip flops, sandals--no more anything that was flat on the bottom. He told me to stretch it too. He also told me that I could ignore him--it wouldn't kill me--but that if I did, we would get to be much better friends, because I would be seeing him all the time.

Hmmm.....

Just kidding:)

Anyhow, that sucks. But he suggested I buy these inserts from New Balance, and I did last night (while I wasn't working out because of my toe! Grr!) and they feel awesome, so, he probably knows what he's talking about.

But doesn't it suck that I have bone spurs on my heels? For some reason, I just thought that happened to hold people or something. Not people who are only 27.....jesus. Am I just getting old?

So then he asked me, if I had felt pain in my heels, why had I never asked about it before, or tried to do something to help it before? And of course I told him the truth: that I thought the pain was from the pressure on my feet and heels from my excessive weight, and the only thing that would help it was losing weight. He just told me that I was insane, and to come back in about a week. He did the super big eye roll, and was out of there.

But seriously, that could be the reason, couldn't it? Excessive weight wasn't a stupid thought. I never would have thought of bone spurs.