I've Been Chalanged!

My older sister has chalanged me to do the "Sentrumsloepet 2010" (The Downtown run 2010). Both my dad and my sister are energetic Marathon runners, with my dad beeing a profesional one... So I have alot to live up too! Don't have a cow, now... I know... Let me tell you, I am NOT handicaped, I am physicaly chalanged... Many of you have heard of Hallux Valgus, also called Bunnions. This is a structural deformity of the bones, and varries in forms of pain, and to the shape of the foot. It has three "stages", or types of disorder. Mild, determent, and severe, with sevre beeing the worst one. Unfortuonatly I am severe.

As a child, I had it, I was born with it, but I had no pain. I ran around like any normal kid. In junior high school during Phyd Ed one day, I suddenly got sharp shooting pain in my feet. Of course I was sendt off to the school nurse. I was explained how this worked. Most parts of the year I am in very good shape. But, usaly I have pain killers to make it work out. It's hard to walk, and everyday I have slight pain. Some parts of the year my feet just stops working, and I have cruches or even a wheel chair, causted by over exhaustion of the bone stucture.



This just strikes girls/women, and is verry generetic. Which means, if I have three kids, all of them girls, at least ONE will have this. If she is to have mild or severe, only the future can tell.



Lucky, in the modern days as we live, theres is alot of help for people like me. I have this small support bandade, which I just slip on the foot, around the bunion, supporting the sides, and the big toe, and it hardly showes through the sock, and I can't almost feel it.


Of couse many of you guys think I most me nuts to set out to run the Downtown Run in 2010. But, this is for me. I am in line for an opperation, which will make my feet work normaly, and I will never have pain again, exept if I overstrain anything.



I have gone over this with my doctor, and he sais it's NOT smart to do the run, but I won't damage anything for life. I will prob be in alot of pain after it, but if it's something I wan;t to do, he can;t stop me. And hopefully, not long after that I get my operation!


Heres is a photo of my feet. LOL. I don't have nails on my pinky toes, but in this photo I have fake nails! Arn't they nice? And an x-ray photo from wiki, showing the stuctural of two feet with severe Hallux Valgus. This is what my x-rays look like, more or less!



So, wish me luck, or call me a bone head! Training starts next monday, and I know I won't break a world record, but I'll break a record for me!