The news is good.

After suffering through an MRI (not a pleasant experience) I got the call from the doc. MRI showed nothing and the x-ray showed no fracture. So apparently I have a “pinched nerve” which just means that there is some nerve irritated in there. Stretching and Advil is all I can do for it. But at least there’s nothing broken in there and nothing ruptured.

And I can resume running as I see fit.