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Oh Man...I am sorry you can't run... I understand the addiction! But you are very wise to not run when you are injured! My freind kept pushing it and has a stress fracture - a common newbie's injury! I have read ifit changes your gait you should not run as you can have furthe injury! Hope it gets better soon!

Are you sure that you didn't break your toe? Usually if my toes actually get a bruise on them, they are broken. If it's broken, even with shoes on it will be hard not to favor it. Plus, you can make it worse. Once I broke a toe back in high school (more accurately, my brother broke my toe)... and then we had to run the mile the next day. Now for me, a mile is no big feat. But back in high school, I hated this exercise even when my feet were fine. At the end, my toe was absolutely killing me. I didn't favor it, I just ran on it through the pain (I'm very good at tuning out pain... notice how I sprained both ankles instead of just one recently!). Well, it swelled up, hurt like crazy, and I actually went to the doctor. Got an x-ray, and the bone was clearly way off from where it should have been! The doctor said he had done the same thing once and didn't even understand how I was walking, let alone running on it! I'm not sure if it was already broken off completely before or not, but I'm sure the running didn't help it. And now that toe is sort of permanently curled (makes it hard to put on the VFFs). But I've broken several toes since then and never had any problems with them, although, I didn't run on broken toes again. Aside from being curled, that other toe works fine as far as balancing weight and such appropriately, since it is only a pinky toe. If you're doing barefoot running, you really don't want to risk doing something crazy with your toes though. And if you can barely walk on it, that's not a good sign at all. I could walk just fine on mine even when it was broken completely.