My right arch is collapsed and the left is fine. I’ve been training for four years without doing anything “specific” to target this fudged up foot, lemme give a general run-down of the injuries I’ve incurred.
02’ Football: No issues what-so-ever with any part of my body.
02-03’ Basketball: Nothin’ I was fine for the entire season. Albeit the skin on my feet took a pounding from the crappy basketball shoes
03’ Track: Nothin, I had a fun season with no injuries.
53.2, 2:12, 5:59
03’ Cross Country: No problems at all. I got to about 50 miles during my highest milage week.
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04’ Track: I trained through the winter and had an outstanding season. No Injuries or even hints of injuries. My body was at 100% throughout (I hate GHT words 
) the season and I was able to push myself unhindered.
51.3, 1:56, 4:43
04’ Summer (XC Preseason): I had my first arch injury here. I began running low milage (30-40) at the begining of the summer, then I picked it up drastically 8-12 miles per week increase and my arch just couldn’t keep up. I spent a total of 5 weeks trying to get back on my foot (Probably would’ve taken 3 If I had just stayed off it).
04’ Cross Country: I ran the entire season, however, It was a pattern of train 1 week-take 3 days off icing and hobbling around like a gimp favoring my weak arch. However, my performances were consistent and a major improvement from my sophomore year.
16:51 3m
At the end of Cross Country I got a myself a pair of orthotics and adapted to them over the winter. The arch problems seemed to abate, though my foot was almost always sore.
The Orthotics are general arch-supports little plastic thingies that I stick in my shoes. They’re not personalized at all (except for my shoe size).
04’ Track: I spent a fair portion of this season with abductor problems. Every race I would lock up and cramp afterwards. I only managed a mediocre season, with no improvement from the year before.
51.1, 1:58.8, X
05’ Summer: This was one of my better seasons. I started off with an innovative approach, I kept my milage relatively low and focused on my two hard workouts and my long run and my other four days were recovery days of some form or another. I finished the off-season in better aerobic shape with nothing in severe pain. My arch was sore once in a while, but I iced it and it was fine.
05’ XC: This season was mentally the biggest break-down for me. My lower leg(s) were in top condition and I never ran into an injury problem for the season. However, two things majorly handicapped a stellar performance this particular season. 1) My stomach was cramping. Every race my gut would cramp, sometimes the left side, sometimes the right, sometimes right in where my womb would be, but I cramped in almost 99% of my races. 2) I lost my heart. During this XC season I just couldn’t convince myself to “push” “it” during all but one of the races. The one race where I did push myself, I obliterated everyone but the leader of my team, AND i still felt like I could’ve done better. My training was above average, I was training fast enough to be #2 man by a good 20 second margin, but come the races I couldn’t push myself.
Track 06’: This season was probably my biggest let-down. All of my injuries ganged up on me but only a little bit at a time. I held them off and was able to train. But the transition to a distance-type training program, along with the intense rains kept me from doing the workouts that I NEEDED to do to run well. That and I’m a pussy, but more on that later. I couldn’t improve my times.
I’ll post pictures of my foot/running form a bit later. This aint a finished post.
