The intention for tonight’s run was an 8.5 mile comfortable run, which is actually on my training plan for weekend but as I’m going away, I decided to swap and do it tonight instead. Seeing as I’m on an easy week this week, I didn’t think it would be a bad thing to change my diary round a bit.
I decided to head up onto the tops and make up my route as I went along. I ran up through the side of Wilderswood onto George’s Lane and had a natter with Sean before carrying on along George’s Lane and running up the Pike. I motored my way up there and was really proud of myself and a couple of blokes on the top even commented at how well I got up there.
Then disaster struck.
I was running down the grassy slope towards the gate leading to the mast and all of a sudden a sharp pain emanated from my right ankle. It came out of nowhere as I hadn’t gone over on it or anything like that. It was so sharp that I made an involuntary squeal when it happened. I sat down on the grass and moved it around a bit but it was really painful. I tried to stand back up but it hurt too much. After sitting for about five minutes it started to ease a little so I got up. It still hurt but I was able to walk and I decided that I’d better just head back home. I rang Duncan to see if he would pick me up on George’s Lane so I didn’t have to walk the whole way as I didn’t want to make it worse.
My training is going so well at the minute that I didn’t want to jeopardise it by being a hero and carrying on running, although the pain eased off considerably as I was walking back and I did start to feel a bit of a wimp. I definitely made the right decision though as it did keep twinging all night afterwards. I don’t’ think it’s anything serious, it doesn’t feel like it so I’ll just rest for a short while and see how it goes.
Total distance – 3 miles (although about 1 mile of that was limping!).
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