It's sad news... and official now

So, since last month, I've been training for another 1/2 marathon. I was getting pretty excited about this one. It is the Utah Valley Marathon and it looks to be a great run!

Well, everything seemed to be going well until last weekend. I started getting this horrible pain in my toe. I decided to go get it checked out at my family doctor to see if there was something really the matter with it or if I just needed to suck it up and deal with the pain.

Turns out, I have a bunion. This bunion is very painful. I saw my podiatrist and he recommended me getting some orthotics for my shoes for my race. He told me that eventually, I needed to get surgery to correct this problem or else I just need to get use to this pain. I was going to deal with it until...

This last weekend, I don't know what happened but my toe got MUCH worse! I was in pain all weekend and it was miserable.

With the big decision, I decided to not race in June. I need to get surgery done NOW. I went to the doctor and got some pain medication and they are working wonderful! My surgery is scheduled for May 5th.

Hopefully, there is another race in August that I might sign up for. That would be fun to do again. This is the same race that I did last year.

So, here's to a successful surgery and a speedy recovery!