Trail Running with a Broken Foot?

For the past year, I've had a bad foot. After months of X-rays, bone scans, diagnoses from doctors, physiotherapists, podiatrists and a few quacks, I learned I had Plantar Fasciitis. (I hope to share my research on the diagnosis and cure of plantar fasciitis with you in another post.) Getting over it just takes time, but after almost a year of working my way back from this nasty injury, I ran darned close to an ultra distance on the trails a couple weeks ago at the Squamish Scrambler. Yee-haw! I'd hoped to spend the next few months building endurance, strength and speed then kick off the new year with a strong finish at the Vancouver New Years Day Fat Ass 50. Then I fell off a wall...

Yeh, a moment of inattention was all it took. I wish I could say I was injured duking it out with my fast buddies on a treacherous stretch of downhill on a slippery, rooty section of the Baden Powell Trail. But I can't. I was horsing around on a concrete retaining wall at the beach with my kids. Dho!

I figured I'd suck it up and it would go away, but my foot (the good one, not the one with plantar Fasciitis) got all purple and puffy. 'Got some X-rays. The doctor tells me the good news is that it's not fractured. The bad news is that the x-rays show a chunk of bone floating around and it hurts like stink. It really pisses me off because the Edgemont Mile was Sunday morning and, as an executive of the Capilano Eagles Running Club, I'd been organizing this run for almost a year and I couldn't even get to it to help with registration.

Slim chance I'll be doing a lot of trail running with this foot. Guess I'll have to take up yoga for a while. Anyone got any other suggestions?