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Swannee's Return to Racing - From the Depths of Illness and Injury

After shoulder surgery, a strange illness, recalcitrant plantar fasciitis, heel surgery with complications, another bout with the flu - its time for me to get back in the training saddle - with a focus on XTERRA, enduro mountain biking then onto some fall AR, trail running races and more.

Day 2

Bill Swann - Monday, November 02, 2009
Early morning P90 strength workout (1 hour); early evening P90 yoga session (very intense 1 hour) and I feel good...like I'm really coming back.
I was a bit concerned due to more foot soreness than I had anticipated. However, following my lunchtime massage session, my massage therapist - Monica Giddings - worked wonders on my foot. The rest of the day there was a significant improvement. During the massage, we both felt major areas of scarring that, once released (not a pleasant feeling) went a long way in decreasing the symptoms.
I am now even more optomistic that this is going to be a resolvable condition and that I will most likely be able to run my goal of a 50K...or a 2 day adventure race - sometime in the fall of 2010.