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Fair, forest, football and food (and some advice fot those with the same injury...)

Ciao

The two first days of our trip in Milan went mostly representing orienteering in the fair of Milan as Finnish o-federation and Puglia region made sponsorship contract. On saturday, we also had time to make a longer o-training near our hotel. It was so nice to run in the woods where was no snow. (The map can be found below)

After the work, we had two days for our selves in Milan. On Sunday we ran a long training along the streets of Milan while the city was still sleeping. In the afternoon, we enjoyed the football on San Siro even though the best of the best weren't playing. It was also nice to have the delicious dinner in the evening. However, I didn't shop too much this time, which is quite untypical;)

Today, I made this combined running and strength training with Jyväskylä folks which I haven't been able to do for a while. But now my foot is a lot better so it was finally okay to do something else too.

Because many of you have contacted me during this winter I decide to write about the plantari fascitis once more. This time I'll just summarize shortly what has helped me and what hasn't just for those of you who have the same problem or are otherwice interested.

So, during the first three months i minimized running and stopped it totally for a month. I also took painkillers and a shot of cortizone as well. I used this streching shoe during the nights and sometimes high heels during the days, but nothing seemed to help.

The taping I had at first was under my foot but wasn't really making the problem any better even though I could make some training swith it too. The turn happened when I visited Jukka Kangas, a physiotherapist in Helsinki, who examined my foot and took a way a lock I had had in my ankle for a long time. I also got some excercises that I started to make.

During the first week there was no change in the condition of my foot, but when I visited Jukka the other time, we talked about getting these soles for my foot but we decided to begin with a taping that would show us whether they would be helpful or not. The taping helped my nerves and muscles to function better and I wasn't overusing my toe muscles anymore, which was basically causing the pain. I also continued with the excercises and got some more demanding ones as well.

I got a new taping for Milan and I don't want to get it off even though it's starting to rotten;) Hopefully, I don't have to get the sole as it's always better to use your own muscles if you get them to function in a right way...

So, there are a lot of ways, but this is hopefully the right one for me. At least, I've been running almost every day now :O)


PICTURES:
Interview at Duomo
Watching football;)
At the fair
Sunday morning training in Milan
The difficulty of choosing
The precisious taping
O-training in Milan (map)
A piece of Milan city map

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