So you know how in my last post, I said I would be missing the next day's 4.5 miler because running with an injury would be stupid?
Well it turns out I'm very stupid. I ran about 4 miles of it, in increasing pain, before limping back to my car, and since then (last Wednesday and this is Monday) I've been in pretty constant pain and had my ankle strapped up.
I'm quite stoical about pain. A few years ago I had a badly prolapsed spinal disc, and trust me, after that, even childbirth is a walk in the park. This is both a good thing and a bad thing - bad because, the fact that my ankle is making me wince and much painkillers may mean that I have actually done something serious to it.
I'm starting to miss running (?!), and to stress a little bit about falling behind with my training - although better for it to happen now rather than right before the marathon I suppose. Work is busy, but if things haven't improved by Friday I'll be off to see a physio / doctor / other professional ankle wrangler to get it sorted.
I complained about it to my optician on Saturday, who told me that when she was a student they ran out of eyes to dissect and gave her a leg instead. She said she would be willing to have a look at my ankle, based on her experience, but that she wasn't sure she could do much without cutting it open. I declined politely!
So yeah...that's why there haven't been many updates. At the current time I assume I can't run until at least the weekend and that's assuming there's some sort of magical improvement over the next 24 hours. Send healing thoughts...
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