To run or not to run

Is 3 hours going to hurt you? AAaaaaahhhhhh ...... YES!!!! Don't do it!

Not sure how long you have been off, but you may have to employ the 10% rule to build back up to your pre-injury distance. Going from a little bit more than 3 miles to 3 hours? You are just asking to reinjure yourself. If you reinjure yourself, you won't be able to train for a longer period of time. The poll is already telling you something! If you are training with a group, go out so far and flip it. Your team mates won't think anything worse and will probably learn a lot from you through your actions.

Just my 2 cents!

I tried water running and it didn't seem to do much of anything besides bore me. Maybe I was doing it wrong. I still lost speed and fitness, but at least it gave me energy to focus on the bike for a while.

This is extremely frustrating, especially since my body isn't telling me to rest since nothing even hurts! The technician who did the bone scan said that a stress fracture will start to ache when it's healing, but I've felt nothing at all. I hope that doesn't mean it's not healing!

Maybe I'll just try to space out the 6 or 7 miles by adding some walking in the middle, then do the rest on the elliptical and walk on the treadmill at an incline. The doctor told me that I can do elliptical and walk as much as I want right now; it's the pounding of running that I have to ease into again.