Apologies for the photo of my ugly foot, but I couldn’t think of another way to display the diagnosis of the foot problem that I have been having for the past month.

I got these words from my doctor today .. “You have a ‘healing’ stress fracture of the 2nd metatarsal”.  Two thoughts, immediately entered my mind:  I’m not surprised and, at least he said ‘healing’.

As you know, my foot has been bothering me for about a month now and this past week, I became increasingly suspicious that it was a stress fracture. Today, that suspicion was confirmed.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to share this news on my blog.  In the end, however, I decided I had to share.  This blog is about life and triathlon and this injury is definitely a part my life right now.  I was concerned about sharing, because I didn’t want to come across as wanting sympathy.  I don’t need sympathy.  This is not a huge injury.  It has come at the right time of the year and, I am already about half way through the recovery process.

The good news is that the doctor said it is fine for me to continue biking and swimming.  I just need to avoid ‘impact’ type activities.  I had a brutal session on the bike trainer tonight and didn’t feel my injury at all, which was very encouraging.  I am also hoping that swimming a little more often, might help improve my weakest event.  I get to keep training, which is all I really need right now.