So this last week I was ramping back up into running after a ten day downtime (due to uncertainty about my foot.) I ran 2, 5, 7.3, and 4 miles Monday through Thursday. Unfortunately I had foot pain on that last run. This is not good, because certainly something is not right. I took Friday off and on Saturday I planned to run my last long run, which was ten miles. I only managed to do five, because my foot started hurting around four miles in.
Needless to say this complicates my certainty about running in the Chicago Marathon. Vince, a PARC member and CMU alum, told me a very cautionary tale about an undetected (via xray, anyway) stress fracture he had that ended up becoming a broken foot when he was running a marathon.
I already have an appointment with a podiatrist (the earliest they could schedule me after last Monday's doctor's appointment was this Wednesday, nine days later), but at Vince's encouragement, I have requested an urgent scheduling of a bone scan to remove all uncertainty about any existence of a stress fracture in my foot. If I have a fracture, I will not be running on Sunday. If I don't have a fracture, I will run. In the meantime I will continue biking to/from work this week as a means by which to keep some of my muscles exercised.
I fly out on Thursday morning very early. I will be working in the Chicago engineering office on Thursday, Friday, Monday, and some of Tuesday. I don't know anyone in the Chicago office, but I will be going to lunch with their director of Engineering for fun :) I will also be visiting with John W at U Chicago, and Fred M who works for Shure these days.
Regardless of what happens I will be going to Chicago, where I have never been, and I will have a great time visiting with old friends and catching up with the fine people of the Cambridge Running Club!
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