What is this on my FOOT?!

So you all know I'm a snowboarder, and I snowboard a lot. Every weekend. In scary stuff.

In the last couple of weeks, the ball of my right foot has been really hurting. Like "ow crap I can't walk" hurting after boarding. It's right over the bone on the ball part, toward the instep.

Well, now there's a bump there that you can MOVE AROUND! (insert squicked-out screaming sound here) It hurts when you press on it, it's kinda squishy, and it's movable. It's, say, pea-sized.

I've been padding my foot with moleskin for the last weekend or two and it seems to help some, but now I'm just walking regularly and tagging this bump / cyst / alien thing in my foot.

Anyone have any idea what this thing is and how I can get rid of it, barring quitting snowboarding (only 5 weekends left) or killing it, with fire?

 

Gah, not a bug bite, had it too long. I should note it's on my back foot (hence, the "steering" foot) and it gets a lot of pressure from the way I turn.

kirby: I've read up on plantar warts and this doesn't fit the symptoms of it, there is nothing to see there either (and I've looked like crazy).

I'm skurred to go to the doc, afraid he'll tell me I'll have to quit snowboarding and then I'll go over the table at him.

 

If you look at the ball of your foot, the fattest part of the ball (under the big toe), that's the area. It's right at the base of that, where the bone sticks out the most, when you bend your toes up (right before you get to the arch, and I have unbelievably high arches).

clear as mud, I know.

Eric: technically, I don't have a "back" foot since I'm a switch rider (can ride either foot forward), but I spend a bit more time with my left foot in front, hence my right foot is my BACK foot. I could've said my fakey foot but then everyone but the boarders would've been confused.

No pics, because there is nothing to see! Plus, I don't have the most stunningly attractive feet in the world anyway, and you couldn't pay me to post pics of my feet on GT for all you foot fetish pervs.

Guess I'll ride it out (pun intended) and then if it's still bugging me when I switch over to dirtbikes, I'll head to a podiatrist and see what he says. Was hoping in the vast microverse that is GT, that *someone* would've had this before.