Injury Time-Out

Well, I haven't hike for two weeks now.  I think my training schedule was a bit too much and I have succumbed to a bad case of tendonitis in my achilles heel and plantar faciitis on the bottom of my foot.  I have been stretching and icing and trying to let them heal, but no real progress has occurred.  The best treatment for the plantar faciitis seems to be some shoe inserts that redistribute my weight to the balls of my feet rather than the heels.  Ibuprofen works pretty well too.  In the interim, I am training on my road bike.  Let's just hope I can do the training hikes in Colorado next weekend.