Favoring a foot

While there might not be anything broken in my foot, something is just not right and I should probably heed my doctor's advice and not run on it for a while. Of course, I have a pre-paid trip to Boston on the horizon for a half marathon that I've already paid for too, so not running is not in the cards until at least after Memorial Day weekend. I can suffer through until then if there's no improvement.

It's after the half marathon in Boston where decisions will have to be made. Against my better judgment, I'm leaning toward actually running a full 26.2 in Baltimore in October. The problem is that if I do that I'll have to start training for it on June 8. That leaves two weeks after the half marathon in Boston for my foot to heal completely. Assuming that I run the risk of damaging it further by not taking it easy now, I don't know if I'm going to be ready to begin a full marathon training program by the second week in June. Oh, well. If worse comes to worse and I have to forgo a full marathon in lieu of a half in Baltimore (which will only take 12 weeks to train for, giving me 8 weeks to heal after Boston if I need it) I guess I'll just have to give a full marathon a go some other time.

As for training, I ran 3 miles Thursday and 5 today, both on treadmills. With my foot still hurting I just want to log the miles and not worry about hills and elevations and grades and such. Tomorrow I'm on tap for 11 which I will run outdoors. I think 7 miles is my limit for the treadmill without going batty. It will also be a good indicator of whether I'm asking too much of my foot right now. But the truth is I felt better after my 5 miles today so we'll see how it goes.