first run in germany

so as i wrote earlier, i was pretty uncertain about my running as of two days ago. i’m no more certain today. the shot that the podiatrist gave me definitely dulled the pain, but it certainly didn’t take it away completely. i still have pain where the nerve is between the 2nd and 3rd metatarsal, but also farther to the left, closer to the little toe. i went for a 6 miler today to test it out, and it was pretty uncomfortable, but not unbearable. if the pain doesn’t get worse in the next week, i’m just going to keep training for the marathon. if it gets worse, as the podiatrist said, it must be a hairline fracture, and i’m going to have to hang this up. it would take at least 2 weeks completely off to make it better and then i’d have to ease back, with no chance to be ready by april 27th.

it certainly doesn’t feel good that i didn’t run for 4 days in a row, and only twice in the last 8 days with only 2 months until the race, but i already paid the entry fee, and i’m not about to let it go to waste without at least trying.

this is definitely not something i wanted to go through before my first marathon, but we’ll see what happens.