Westerly, RI. Wahaneeta / Woody Hill. Recovery jog with Brady after yesterday's USATF-NE 5K championships. Not a soul out there.
Tuesday: 2 walk, 11 run
Westerly, RI. CCC monitoring at Riverwood Preserve.
Charlestown, RI. From CCC to Burlingame Campground, for a road work-out. Descending ladders on gated quiet paved roads.
Wednesday: 10
Westerly, RI. With Brady. Easy and uneventful run on the Grills 10-Mile course. Only saw one person out there, with their dog, but parking lot was half full on way back.
Thursday: 3 walk, 11 run
Westerly, RI. 5 mile pre-breakfast run with Brady, from home. Mixer including Winnapaug Farm Preserve fields and short trails and Champlin Glacier trails, plus roads to and fro.
Westerly, RI. WLT Thursday hike at Riverwood. I've been leading about one of these per month. Today we had a group of 15, with the oldest being 92 years old! This is a really nice preserve, but with lousy access.
Westerly, RI. Late afternoon pre-WTAC board meeting run, with Justin and Dave. Dave led us out from Barlow and we were doing fine until we got on a really twisty trail I'm not familiar with. Zooming in on Strava post-run, it looks like it was "Naughty Nurse", and the trail certainly was naughty to me.
I was running between Dave leading and Justin trailing, when on an uneven but straight section of trail it happened. I heard a "snap" as I stepped awkwardly landing on the outside of my right ankle and rolling the ankle, painfully stretching the ligaments. I did not fall but due to the pain, I instantly laid down and yelled. Took me a while to get up and walk it off, but I did finish the run out of there, especially as there was really no other choice. Some swelling occurred, and I iced the best I could when I got home post-meeting.
Friday: 0
Woke up to an ankle that was very swollen, painful, and difficult to walk on. As luck would have it, this just happened to the date of this year's annual physical, so I had to checked it out and evaluated. I am pending x-rays to rule out a stress fracture, but it sounds like it's strained ligaments.
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| Pretty gross, eh? Swollen, bruised, and painful. |
Saturday: 1 walk
Westerly, RI. After hobbling around in pain yesterday, it was no nice to see a visible reduction in the swelling today. Still swollen for sure, but I can once again see my ankle bone, so it's moving in the right direction. Also no more pain when walking, so I late afternoon I went to Avondale Farm Preserve with Brady to walk the 1-mile perimeter route. Took a few jogging steps which unsurprisingly did NOT feel good, but that's OK, I'm just happy to be walking normal and getting better.
Kind of depressing flipping through the Strava feed and seeing friends bang out Border Patrol Challenge runs, but I know I have to be happy for them and not jealous.
Sunday: 3 walk
Hopkinton, RI. Sought out flat and even ground, and thus went to Grills Wildlife Preserve for a brisk walk with Brady. Finished the walk with 3 x 100-meter easy jogs. Felt just OK.
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| Swelling is going down. Purple and black bruising and discoloration is worse now. |
Weekly mileage: 38 run, 9 walk
Weekly synopsis: The first half of the week (pre-ankle kerfuffle) went pretty well. The second half of the week, not so well. After my blister issue from last week had healed, I figured this would be a great week. But that's the funny thing about running; one moment everything is going great but you just never know what the next chapter is going to bring you as there are so many variables.
I'm trying to be patient and allow the injury to heal, which is not something I'm very good at. Fortunately, this was not a race weekend, as it was hard enough to turn down invites to run the trails. Next weekend I have the Colchester Half Marathon scheduled, although I would say that it's in jeopardy at this point. If I can heal up and get better for USATF-CT 5K championships the following weekend, I'll be happy with that. Trying to stay positive in the meantime.
Weekly highlight: Grills 10-mile course run with Brady.
Weekly lowlight: The ankle sprain and resulting debilitation.
Oof, that looks like a nasty one! I rolled mine badly on the 2nd BP course and have been aggravating it steadily with each subsequent route. However the last four BPs I managed to avoid trashing it further. I hope you recovery swiftly!
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