“Should I Run Through This?” A Runner’s Guide to Deciding
You’re dressed. Shoes on, watch synced, standing by the door. And there it is again — that thing in your shin, or your heel, or the outside of your knee. Not agony. Just present. Most of us guess. We either push through and hope, or we bail and feel frustrated. Neither is a system. What follows is a system — a practical framework for deciding, in the moment, whether to run, modify, or stop.