u/Brave-Turnover-4643

I’m a college student who used to run track. I loved short distance running especially the 400 and 300 hurdles. I lowkey wish I would’ve ran the 800 too. Anyways, now that I’m in college, there are very few short distance race opportunities and I want to get into long distance running. I really want to push myself to my limits and see results after training hard for something. I ran one 5k with a time of 29:17 a few months ago off no training and I know for a fact I can do better. I want to run a marathon one day, but I don’t think that’s going to be for a while. How do I train to build a base/endurance and what should my weekly run schedule look like.

I got a Brazilian wax a little more than a month ago and I’ve dealt with a few bad ingrown hairs but they’ve resolved themselves/gone away with exfoliation. But there’s one that started at the normal size of an ingrown hair about a week ago (like a pimple) and has since grown to be about the size of a black bean and I’m very worried it may be infected. It’s hurts to the touch and feels pretty swollen. And the worst part is that it’s in my butt like in between the cheeks (I’m sorry to be so detailed but I really need some advice). What do I do? Do I need to go see a healthcare professional?

(I’ve been exfoliating with either an African net sponge or glycolic acid. I’ve been moisturizing with lotion but not really in the area where the ingrown is so that may be the reason why)