Meeting at the bank
The 42 kilometres I had run in China hadn’t aggravated my injury. I had expected things would get worse and had calculated with this as an unavoidable cost. The tenderness still persisted after I got home, however, and I was most frustrated and upset that there didn’t seem to be a solution to the problem.
Weight loos
In the summer of 2011, I decided to lose weight. It had nothing to do with the heel, but a realization that a man in his 50s at 107 kilos, must expect an end to his marathon career soon. I rode many bike rides and soon the weight loss started to show. Quietly, I lost kilo after kilo. It motivated me to keep going and so did the weight loss. It should turn out that the combination of bad heel and weight loss should come to me in part again later in life.
