About a month ago I injured my foot. The doctor said no stress fracture, probably a badly bruised heel. I had a 15k on the books for 2 weeks after I hurt myself. After resting it for those 2 weeks, I felt great and ran the 15k in a decent time, 1:15. That same night though, my foot started hurting again. So I've been doing weights and barre classes in place of running the last 2.5 weeks.
The issue is I have a half coming up next Saturday. It's my first one. The longest I have run to date is 10 miles, which is what I was running when I hurt myself. I'm not sure if I should run the remainder of my schedule, or continue to do the low impact exercise and just go for the half like I did the 15k lol. I'm confident I can cover the distance, I'll just have to really watch my pace and slow down.
Post by sassystace on Nov 20, 2014 10:10:38 GMT -5
If your foot was hurting again after the 10 miler--then 2 weeks wasn't enough to heal it (or it's something more than a bruise). And if you go for it and run the half, it will probably end up hurting again--so again you will have to take off enough time after your half to actually let it heal (which might be totally acceptable to you). I'd probably go on a 3-4 mile run pre-half and see how it feels and then decide. Or if you are all in for the half--just run it and then take the time to recover after.