This is what my left foot looked like last year less than a week before leaving for the Chemin de Saint Jacques. I had broken the pinky and fourth toe exactly a week before our departure and ended up walking the 400+ kms with a gimpy gait. It was doable but not terribly fun.
So this year I find out I have plantars fasciatis in my left foot (which was a pre-existing condition, just not diagnosed). There's some sort of a bump on the arch of my foot that is going to be a blister spot (it already has gotten red from my brief walks this past week). So it's time to get out the tincture of benzoin and get going on slathering it all over my feet. Then it's figuring out how to tape the foot, and take lots of myoflex (a muscle relaxant cream) and do the ibuprofen/advil routine. If I can walk with what I had last year, I certainly can this year.
It's just a wrinkle in my sock that will need to be straightened out. Between now and then, I need to do some walking just to get myself stretched out.
I am beginning to think about the Camino because our departure is four weeks from today!
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