Mileage: 6
Time: 52:00
I shouldn’t have been reading all your blogs about your injuries. It rubbed off.
I suffered a bit of a setback today. I was out running 6 miles and feeling really good. By my mile splits, I was looking at quite possibly breaking 50 minutes. I had just passed the 5 mile marker and decided to drop a gear and really push the last mile to see what I had. Then I stepped on the tiniest pebble in a trail full of them. But I stepped on it just right (or wrong) and rolled my ankle…
crap…
Now, I destroyed both my ankles long ago. I stepped on the sides of one too many bases playing baseball and ruined both of them at one point or another. Add to that stepping on a few shoes while playing basketball, etc., and you get the point. There is not much left to hurt. I can usually roll an ankle while doing something, hop up and down a couple of times while saying something colorful (with multiple sentence enhancers…), and then continue on without any problems. Unfortunately, not this time.
I went from a possible sub 50 to hobbling in at 52. I knew once I stopped that I may be hurt a bit more than usual and I was right. While there is not a whole lot of swelling, there is sharp pain in the top of my ankle in the spring or extension part of my step (think standing on your tip toes…) and a slight general discomfort when I walk.
The good news is that I do have some extra time planned in to my training schedule for just such an emergency. I just didn’t want to use it until later. I am going to start by taking today off. I was only scheduled for 3 miles anyway so it’s no biggie. From there I guess you would call my status “day to day”. I am supposed to run 8 tomorrow and I really don’t want to miss that, but as I’ve said all along, I will listen to my body. If I have to take a week off to heal, that’s what I’ll do. I won’t like it and I will be a grumpy, miserable, whiny, SOB the entire time, but I’ll do it… *sigh*
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