No issues with the ankle today. In fact, I think it feels a bit better than yesterday. I’m not going to push it though and keep with my one day on, one day off schedule.
Richard: Yeah, I DO need to do a spin class (or three). I’ll check into that tomorrow!
Dr Miller and Lesley each have this month’s articles posted on their respective websites. Make sure you go take a look!
Okay, this is gonna sound really stupid after this morning’s post but I had a longish run today at lunch. Sister Corinne called me up and asked if I’d be up for our old four-sisters route. I hummed and hawed and finally said, “I’ll give it a go”.
It was pretty hard going. Especially in the first 15 minutes (and first hill). My achilles were really tight and I was constantly aware of the potential for damaging my ankle.
Interlude: Sheesh! Am I ever sounding like a whiner!
Back to our regularly scheduled program: After those first few minutes, things loosened up quite a bit. We weren’t setting any speed records and my breathing and heart rate were showing me some pretty poor fitness indicators but I managed to gut it out fairly strongly.
The ankle feels alright but final judgment on that is left for tomorrow.
It was great visiting all five sisters even if four of them kicked my ass…Ok Ok, actually all five of them kicked my ass.
Oh well. Such is life! 
I’m beginning to see why Aaron doesn’t like to talk about injuries when he thinks they are getting better. His experience is that just when things seem to be getting better, something happens to show they are not.
I seem to be experiencing that same jinxing effect. Last week, I mentioned the ankle felt really good but over the weekend I realized it is not. There is a tender spot on what I am now pretty sure is bone. When the doc checked it out, he said he was 95% sure it was a sprain but there was a very slim chance of a stress fracture. He offered (and even gave me a prescription for) an x-ray but I didn’t follow-through because he said stress fractures usually don’t show up on x-rays. At the time I asked myself, “well then why are you even offering to have it x-rayed Doc?”. The answer came from a work colleague who explained that, in Alberta, you must have tried an x-ray before you can have an MRI. MRI’s see everything in detail and likely would find a stress fracture if it was there. The problem with MRI’s here in Alberta is that the wait list is usually months long so, by the time you get one, you are probably all healed up.
So, it looks like I just need to be patient. Ramping up running mileage, frequence or intensity would probably be really stupid since if I do have a fracture, it would likely make it worse or at minimum extend the healing time.
In case you didn’t guess, I did not run this past weekend. I’m gonna go out for 40 minutes at lunch today and just enjoy the fact that I can at least do that.
On another note, Finter is still with us. You gotta like that!
