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September 22, 2004
Not feeling much better
I'm not feeling much better. In fact, I might even be feeling worse than I have been. My left ankle is feeling worse and worse.
I got to work this morning and could barely function, I was exhausted. I really think it's because I didn't get to have my half hour of quiet time when I try to sleep on a daily basis yesterday. As the day went on I was having waves of feeling awake and waves of feeling like I could just fall right to sleep.
My ankle didn't feel too bad when I was walking around at work, but when I was running it felt much worse than it has for the past few days. I think that running on the grass last night didn't help it feel any better. J told me that I should take today off or just run in the pool, but I'm stubborn and it was nice out today so I wanted to run outside. I probably should have turned around at the two mile point and gone to run in the pool. Unfortunately the swim team uses the pool almost all afternoon and early evening now, so pool running is much harder for me. I stopped to sit down and stretch a few times. I also tried to kind of massage the tendons that feel tender. Right now I'm sitting with an ice pack on it.
I ended up with a short 7 miles this afternoon. I didn't even bother to time it, but it was probably about 9 minute pace because I felt like I was just plodding along. I really hope that I feel better tomorrow since I am supposed to do a track workout. I wanted to do a long, slow run on Saturday since I have another somewhat long race coming up.
I'm getting really frustrated with this ankle thing. It didn't bother me at all last week. It only started to hurt right after the race and it seems to be getting progressively worse. Ice and Advil are going to work so much magic. A massage early next week should be very beneficial. The massage therapist is really able to get into some of the muscles, but of course trying to run after she works on my legs is next to impossible since they feel like jelly.
Posted by Blondie at September 22, 2004 06:00 PM