Goofy Training – Week 3 of 22

I roll my ankles all the time. Seriously, it is a near daily occurrence for me. What I don’t often do is roll my ankle, loose my balance and belly flop onto the pavement like I did 18km into my 24km run on Saturday morning in Stratford. It was truly comical. I was doing a shoulder check preparing to cross the street and deposit an empty gel wrapper in a trash bin when my left foot hit an uneven ridge between the concrete curb and asphalt road. From there I hit the ground: left knee, left hand, right hand and belly flop.

Fortunately there were no cars on the road and I was able to at least get up and sit on the curb immediately. Another runner had seen me go down and came over the check that I was OK. My hands and knee were scraped and a bit bloody but it was mostly my pride that was hurt. My ankle felt alright so I decided to try and walk it off for about 400m. I was actually less than 2km from the hotel and I considered bagging the run right there. Once I started moving though my ankle felt about 90% so I completed the run and then launched into ankle recovery mode.

Ironically when I ran in Stratford last year I also had ankle problems and needed my Dad to get me a bag of ice from the hotel restaurant during brunch. By the time I made it down to brunch I must have been looking a little worse for wear because one of the hotel managers brought me an “amuse-bouche” of two crackers topped with peanut butter and jam while I was waiting for my order of blueberry pancakes to arrive!

Obviously I didn’t run on Sunday and I’ll be taking a few days off this week too. My ankle is still swollen and bruised but I don’t have any pain while walking so I don’t think it’s a major injury.

23/08	8.0 km	Easy run: 6:19 min/km
24/08	XT	Swimming: 2000m
25/08	10.0 km	Tempo run: 7km @ 5:23/5:31/5:26/5:12/5:14/5:02/5:01 min/km
26/08	8.0km	Easy run: 6:15 min/km
27/08	XT	Yoga
28/08	24.0 km	Long run: avg 6:37 min/km
29/08	-	Rest day
Total	50.0 km	YTD: 1217.2 km