It was near the end of my 30km long run this week... I was paying attention to traffic rather than where I was going, and my foot slipped off the side of the sidewalk.
Immediate flare of pain in my ankle. I kept running, and it seemed OK. In the following days, I noticed it now and then, but seemed pretty trivial (and us runners are used to trivial aches and pains!)
Went out to do a 20km marathon pace run yesterday, and I didn't make it more than 500m before I had to turn back... @#$%!
NYC Marathon is 4 weeks away. Next week is supposed to be my biggest training week, with my last 32km run.
The only good news in all of this is that I can bike fine, no pain, so at least I can do my cross training while I patiently wait for this thing to heal. Some people do a 4 week taper, but it's a tapering off - not running is not tapering!
Sigh.
2 comments:
Uh-oh! Hope it gets better.
whew... just did a 20km run (first since injury) and it went really well. Kept it to biking the last week, gave it time to heal, looks like I'm back in business for my last week of training before the big day!
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