Weekend Roundup
My weekend started in an interesting manner when I hung out with some new friends — one of whom co-owns the only rum distillery in the Cayman Islands. It’s a pretty small operation and it isn’t sold outside of Cayman so far. It’s called Seven Fathoms Rum if you’re ever in Cayman. We spent a little while helping him out with the bottling process. I operated the “bottle rinsing” station which consisted of taking empty bottles out of the cardboard box and rinsing them out using a rubber attachment that was on the end of a sink faucet. I then put the bottles in a drying rack. I also helped stack up boxes after they were filled up with sealed bottles of rum. Overall it was a fun experience and I wouldn’t mind doing it again. The distillery is right in downtown George Town above Hammerheads (a local bar) so check it out if you come by Cayman on a cruise. It’s right next to where the ships come in.
Earlier on Friday (ie, before the rum bottling) I went to the gym and ran for awhile on the treadmill. It was the first major exercise I’d gotten since last Tuesday when I ran about five miles and played two hours of flag football. I was totally worn out on Wednesday and Thursday I didn’t have time to go so Friday was my first chance. I felt fine at the gym but late Friday night after I got back to my apartment I noticed my left foot was hurting me. I did a quick visual check and noticed a bruise on the inside of my foot. I took a picture of them to email to my mom (a doctor) so I could ask her if it was anything I should get checked out. I’ve never had a big bruise in that area so I was a little concerned about making it worse by continuing to exercise on it. In the end she basically said I should let pain dictate what I do on the foot.
Here is a link to the picture… for obvious reasons I am not embedding a picture of my feet on the blog. I know no one here signed up to load up a webpage and see my feet so I’m giving you fair warning about that link. Click at your own risk. If you do look at it, you can see a darker small bruise towards the bottom of my left foot but the discoloration actually extends up into the ankle area. The lighting doesn’t really show what it looked like in real life.
The bruise and pain have gotten better after a Saturday and Sunday of basically zero activity. I’ve spent as much time as possible on the couch doing nothing and, when I do walk around the apartment, I have been doing it in socks and with shoes. The heel still feels sore but I think it’s recovering. The tough thing is going to be deciding when to come back and how hard to come back. I might just do some indoor biking this week to get my heart rate up and try to minimize my conditioning losses. It’s another frustrating setback for the half marathon training but I would rather play it safe and not develop a chronic condition or put myself out of commission for a few months by turning a minor injury into a major one.
I’m also working on getting some pictures and video from some tubing from last Thursday. I bought a 100″ tube (ie, huge) and it was a ton of fun at high speeds.
Related posts:
- Cayman Weekend Wrapup
- Cayman Picture Post
- Fun weekend
- weekend update
- Relaxing weekend and fun in the office
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I have hurt my ankles/feet so many times it’s not funny. It hurts like hell.
Check out this pic from the last time I did it:
Yucky foot pic