When I do a half Mary, there is usually a little walking going on for the water stations. A buddy of mine joined a running group to help him train for his first half mary, and that is how they trained and ran their half. They used walking breaks at designated times, he ran a 1 hour 50 min. half mary at the age of 52. There is no shame in taking walking breaks.
He does get lots of points for charging down the few large loose dogs. 
I had fun, but I felt kind of old. Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up the pace next week, since I'm about 95% better now. 
Think of it as MAF training.
Funny, I was thinking along the same lines myself. I've had so many niggles these last six months, that I think I've gained some insight into them, and can negotiate them to some extent, without having to resort to pure rest.
It's great to know running occured, but without any fixed temporal reference, it's hard to know what to make of it. Is your ankle OK now? Three weeks from now? Six months ago? When you say tomorrow, can we take today as the deictic origo? Or was tomorrow a yesterday of three days from four days ago?
Half (min I hope) shod, and half bare, for your first will be good, a little insurance never hurts anyone. You will actually be surprised at how much your bare feet can take. If you can get to a bare 10 miler before your half you will be able to do the half bare. By running min shod you are actually conditioning the strength of your feet already, your barefoot running is also conditioning the soles of your feet. If you can keep your miles bare, you just might surprise yourself.
Stick with what ever is on your feet now, unless you have about 3 months to get the feet used to different (gasp) shoes. Feet do not respond rapidly to varying of feel and stack heights.
. Yesterday morning about 1/2 mile into the run I slipped a little trying to avoid a car, that was enough to set my lower back off again. Bob in his quest for his first ultra of the year must be leapfrogging drifts as the winds have picked quite a bit since Saturday afternoon. I was having to negotiate 1 foot drifts on the sidewalks this morning so I only imagine what it is like on the open plains. Good news about the wind is that it is a helping wind. 
. Go Bob Go.
Very sorry to hear about the prank. Hopefully, they are sorry for the trouble they caused?Saturday and today were 2 days of micro runs. Someone at work played a prank on me and that left me with a very tender back. They doctored my my office chair so that it would go straight down as soon as I sat in it. Funny to them but not me
It's too bad there are certain kinds of violence for which reciprocal violence is socially taboo. I mean, logically, you should be able to kick out your co-workers' legs from under him as an equivalent prankish gesture, right? Or I wonder if he would find it funny if you loosened the lug nuts on his car's front wheels. As long as the ensuing accident wasn't fatal it would be a good prank. Does the joker even realize he could've caused you permanent back injury?Saturday and today were 2 days of micro runs. Someone at work played a prank on me and that left me with a very tender back. They doctored my my office chair so that it would go straight down as soon as I sat in it. Funny to them but not me
If it stays sore I will go off on Compo and let the people at work deal with the culprit whoever it might be. I will keep up with the running, and stop just before the discomfort becomes pain. I am stretching and putting the heat to it on a frequent rate, so I hope this will be okay shortly.
