If the pain is underneath the heels, you MIGHT be suffering from planarfasciitis (not sure of the spelling, but I do remember the pain).
Go see a podiatrist (a foot expert) and get some advice/exercises - you can probably do some of them while driving the truck. It should clear up in 20 months, but (I kid you not) if it IS planar-whatever-the-heck it can take ages without expert intervention.

As Stottie said,its possibly down to Plantar Fasciitis.A nasty condition and it can last for years if not treated properly.

I have found the following exercises to be very helpful,especially the one with the tennis ball under the foot as this releases the myofascial tissue.

http://www.painfreewalking.co.uk/stretching-exercises-plantar-fasciitis-heel-pain.html

I've had the Planter thing a few years back, it was painful, one tell tale sign is that its always at its worse first in the morning when you get out of bed, you hobble around for a while and it slowly gets better over the day.
Do you get the pain worse first thing RT ?

The pain only comes back if I have been out wandering about on my feet for a couple of hours or more.
I'm thinking amputation may be a bit drastic............and if I am honest, may cause more of a hinderence than putting up with it.
I don't want to have to change my boots to a smaller size just yet.

The pain only comes back if I have been out wandering about on my feet for a couple of hours or more.
I'm thinking amputation may be a bit drastic............and if I am honest, may cause more of a hinderence than putting up with it.
I don't want to have to change my boots to a smaller size just yet.

Didn't you notice all the hobbling sheep that you passed on the hills? Could be a similar condition .....and you can guess what happens to them............

I'm going to vote against plantar fasciitis. When I had it from running, it always hurt first thing in the morning, or after sitting for a while. When I would run, it would hurt the first quarter mile or so but then loosened up. So it sounds like yours is just the opposite.

I think I'm going to go with SC's diagnosis.

The few cases of Planter Ive heard of were always worse first thing in the morning so it wont be that. I'd go to the doctor and get your feet looked at. A friend had some kind of tendonitus (?) which came on after walking a while, he was a meter reader and was in bad pain at the end of his day wandering around. That took some months to heel up and I think was eventually curved with quarterzone injections (not nice).
Good luck

I had plantar fascitis during and after my second C2C and have had recurrences ever since. It is inflammation of the plantar tendon which runs under the heel and connects to the achilles. While I agree it is often (usually) there in the morning, presumably because the tendon has tightened during the night, I also get it after standing for a long time (hour or so). Hiking in good boots seems to ease it but not ordinary shoes.

One exercise I find very good is to (lie down) curl your toes up as far as you can and hold it for 10 seconds - repeat 10 times. You should feel the achilles stretch and it also stretches the plantar. The beauty of this one is that you can do it in bed when you wake up thus having an excuse for those extra few minutes.

I would definitely go to see a foot doctor, you might need special inserts instead of the commercial gel heel pads.

Geof

I'd go along with the PF as a possible cause of the pain.
I had it quite badly many years ago after hard running on on icy roads. My feet were automatically gripping as it was so slippery, this caused the fascia of my feet to become excessively strained and the pain began the following morning.
I tried ice foot baths, rolling my feet on a bottle and just resting best I could, but nothing worked until i purchased a book called 'Doctor your own feet'.
In this book it showed how to strap up and support the foots arch.
I had to do this every day and got through loads of tape, but it worked and I was back running within days.
I had to keep strapping my feet up for at least a month, even so.
http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cybertherapist/front/foot/plantarfaciitis.htm
Dave.