I posted my capsulitis woes to Barefoot Ted’s forum on Google yesterday, after a very kind email from Barefoot Ted, advising me to try posing my question to the group (I wanted to see if he had any workshops planned for the East Coast, or had trained any coaches who lived on this coast).

I’ve already heard some encouraging stuff back…enough, at least, to keep trying to normalize my feet via physiotherapy & minimal shoes. At the very least, I’m hearing that people with high arches aren’t just stuck with it…and from what I’ve read about other foot issues on the forum, people with flat feet aren’t stuck, either.

I’m sure podiatry is a fine thing, and helps a lot of people, but it does seem sometimes like there’s a single solution for so many foot problems: orthotics. I just don’t get how that can be right for everyone. I mean, it’s not like a broken arm, or something.

Hmmmmm.

You know, when I was a kid and in dance class, everyone was jealous of my crazy high arches. (Just like we were all jealous of each other’s ability to survive on 4 raisins a day, but that’s a different story.) So, imagine my surprise when the doctor I go to says that I have extreeeeeeeemely high arches, and that it’s a bad thing. Yep. They might look all streamlined & crap, but they’re a ticking time bomb. And they just went off.

My vacation plans to hike have been ruined.

Turns out the annoying pain in my left foot (that I was just sucking up and ignoring) was a pretty big inflammation & I’m now on Celebrex & not supposed to walk/run/hike for fun for a week.
Yay.
Oh, and I get to shell out big for orthotics,too. Double yay. Damn my deformed high arches.