Looking forward to tomorrow’s 3 mile race
October 17, 2009After last week’s face plant/yard sale run, I’m looking forward to tomorrow. Lis, my running partner from last year,and now friend, and good luck charm, is running it with me. We don’t know how this happened, but I’m 1317 and she’s 1318 – they have the numbers posted online. Too funny!
By the way, in case you’re wondering or missed this beautiful image I posted on Twitter, here’s what my ankle looked like on Tuesday morning. It’s still a bit black and blue toward the lower part of my foot (where you see that lovely stripe) but it’s not swollen anymore, thank God.
The ankle the day after the face plant
Kinda gross, huh?
I agree.
I tested it out on Friday morning, ran a whole whopping 3.4 miles but it held up.
Oh, did I forget to mention that those 3.4 miles were in 34ish degree weather? Cold enough that my sports beans were getting hard (WTF?) and it was snowing. Yep, you read that right. Snow.
It was only October 16th, for christsake!
I am NOT ready for this. I was wearing my warm base layer, a rain jacket and long pants. Oh, and gloves and my warm winter running hat. (Hey, I’ve not acclimated yet.)
My last few morning runs, I’ve done without headphones, so I could enjoy the beautyof the silence and being out there so early. Friday, I did not need to be reminded with every breath of how miserable it was outside, so I put on the headphones and blasted the music.
At first I almost didn’t run. After all, let me say it again – it was SNOWING. But once I warmed up, I have to admit, I smiled once or twice while running my laps around the lake. Something made me think of Lis and I running a race in the snow in February, and how, around here, you just have to grin and bear it, or you’ll find yourself on a treadmill for more months than you can count. And I’d rather be shot in the head than run inside on a treadmill like a hamster, for months on end. Been there, done that, no more, thanks. Not unless it’s speed work.
Speaking of speed work, I think, if we can swing it financially, I want to join indoor track again this winter. I really enjoyed it. In the winter I have to run alone so often. It’s nice to be with people again. Even if it does mean running around a track where 11 laps make a mile.
So, the weather report for tomorrow’s race time goes like this:
Rain and wind. High 43F. Winds NNE at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall around half an inch.
So glad to not be doing the Baystate Marathon in that.
I know, you’re all spitting mad that you can’t run in crap like that like I am, aren’t you?!
That ankle is HUGE! So glad it got better. I’m coming up your way next week so please hold off on the snow. I saw the pics of your lake and am horribly jealous that you get to run around that everyday. Very pretty.
Good luck tomorrow and I’ll pray that rain holds off.
U r coming to Boston? Want to meet up?
Yep that lake is really pretty. The weather hasn’t allowed the leaves to turn quite like last year though. I need to take more pics. And yep that ankle was huge.
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Yep, that ankle was enormous! I had it wrapped for a few days and tried to stay off it as much as I possibly could. I also did a fair amount of icing on it and it helped. Willie if you ever make it up to Boston, I want you to let me know and we can get together, I’d love to meet you in person like SouthBayGirl has been able to do!
eek! That ankle looks awful! I am so glad it healed enough for you to run.
I am NOT jealous of your weather. Ours got hot again, but I’d rather have that than the cold. I don’t know how you do it.
OMG! OUCH! That is one swollen ankle! I’m so glad it’s feeling better, and the swelling has gone down. Dang!
And wow, am I ever glad to be down in Florida right about now! Good luck tomorrow!!
Eeeks…that’s some swollen ankle. I’m surprised you’re already running on it. Take it easy, just in case more than tissue was damaged.
I am trying to take it somewhat easy – I have noticed that it doesn’t feel 100%, so if it persists for a few more weeks, I’ll likely go to my doctor. In the meantime, I’m going to keep the runs on the shorter side, most likely, and maybe do some more cross-training too. That way I can keep the “fast motion” up but not submit my ankle to so much pounding. Or maybe I should (gasp, can’t even believe I’m saying this) but run on the treadmill? Oh God, I don’t like the treadmill at all – I think I have too much ADD tendencies to put myself on it!
that’s one of the worst swollen ankles that I’ve seen.
That’s the worst swollen ankle I’ve ever had too! Luckily, it did come back down after a few days – I tried to stay off of it as much as I possibly could, and when i did run again, it was quite slow, so as to only test it out. Thank you for stopping by my blog!
i can only hope that kind of weather will still be around next april
riiiight. here i am wimping out about 40*!
ok, insane ankle. hope it’s better by now! goodness gracious. my twitter acts up whenever i actually think to get on it so i missed out on that photo.
Um, yeah, Boston in April… The weather can be so messed up. Some years it’s been snowing at the start, other times it’s been in the 80s. The good news is that if u don’t like the weather in Boston, they usually say to just wait a few hours and it’ll change
I have to admit the ankle still doesn’t feel 100%, but it is so much better than last week!