Tag: Ankle

Tiny Tempo Time

Happy Hump Day!!!!

After Saturday’s race, I was feeling a little sore and my left ankle was not the happiest camper. In an earlier post I had mentioned that I was was rethinking my training plan. While I liked the way the app worked and laid out the plan, it just wasn’t my cup of tea. It went from my Slacker to crazy a little too quickly. Plus I kind of felt like running had become work. That I had to meet certain goals at certain times. So while I was still following it I was thinking of other ideas. Going back to the original plan but with a little twist, so bring on the Slacker Reboot! But that’s for a later post 🙂

Yeah, that's how we do rain, haha — Yeah, that’s how we do rain, haha

With that in mind as well as the ankle uncomfortable-ness, I took it easy on Sunday as opposed to getting in a long run. While everyone else may have been excited about the Super Bowl, my excitement was brought on by waking up to rain!!!! Nowhere near what we needed but it was still great. I waited for it to warm up a bit so I headed out for an afternoon run. I ran right through kickoff!! Yeah, the Super Bowl’s not really my thing. This time I was prepared in full pants, my warmest long sleeve short and a big ear warmer. It was so much better than Saturday, but it was also 15º warmer. My goal was to take it easy and just enjoy the lightly misting rain. As I topped the last hill and was just shy of mile 4, the sky opened up. Overall I hit 4.31 miles. My splits weren’t the best or share worthy but I love the pace of that last little bit 🙂

Monday’s post was all about the awesome SLO Marathon and how excited I am but I did get in a run that day. It was day 1 of new plan after all. It was a very sluggish 3.5 miles on the treadmill. At least that’s how I felt. My average pace was 10:06 and as a rarity, I ran a negative split. Sweet! Now if only I could do it intentionally. I was actually supposed to do 4 miles but just wasn’t feeling it. I decided not to push it. I did a short cool down walk before leaving. I always turn my Garmin or Nike+ off before my cool down. I can’t decide if its overly prideful because I don’t want to lower my pace or if it’s silly and I am shorting myself mileage. What do you think?

Tuesday was a planned rest day and it was so nice 🙂 Today I hit the gym again after work and got in a nice tiny Tempo run. I ran 6 miles with a warmup mile and a cool down mile, with the 4 miles in between at a 9:00 pace. At least that was the plan. Warm up and cool down went according to plan, but the 4 inner miles were 9:30 pace. Oops. My ankle was a little stiff but it eased up as I ran. I was also a little tired since I randomly decided to quit soda today. I am still trying to force myself to like coffee. I am not sure how long this is going to last as I have tried numerous times before but we’ll see how it goes! I told myself I could have soda on the weekends. That would be allowed… So when is it Saturday?

I admit that I am so over the treadmill. Part of me actually wonders if it is contributing to my sore ankle. This lovely article from Runner’s World tells me I no longer have to put the incline at 2, so sweet!!! Today’s run was at .5. I rewarded myself after my run with this yummy smoothie-

It is really sad how tired I am right now. I didn’t drink that much soda anymore anyways. The Doc took away my diet soda, so I cut down to a small coke a day. My head is actually not pounding right now so at least that’s something!

How is everyone’s week?

Anyone else stop their GPS early?

Want to come run SLO? I have a discount code!!!!

Back on track?

Can you be back on track if it’s only been one day? After choosing to take another rest day yesterday, stupid ankle, I hit the park after work. Today was also my first day back to work so bring on the heels too! Wore my lowest pair as they are still more support than my tiny little flats. Too bad I can’t wear running shoes to work 🙂

Leaving work, I was so tired. Today was such a Monday, plus the first day back is never stress free. I had planned to meet my friend at the park for a few laps. However her work day was just as crazy as mine, so she wasn’t able to make it 😦

After 3 days off my plan was to go slow and walk when my ankle hurt. I also planned on only 2 laps. It would be just under 2.5 miles, small but I figured it would be a good test. Those 3 days off felt like forever once I started out. I was so sloooooooow. Which was the plan but it still irritated me. Maybe I should have run this without my GPS, but where’s the fun in that?

2 laps turned into 3, all still slow. Slow but steady with some walk breaks. I can feel my ankle, it’s not as bad as it was but it’s not exactly happy. So after tomorrow’s volleyball finals, I have decided to push my Wednesday run back to Thursday to give it a little more time.

On a funnier note, I had mentioned previously that there was a section of the park path that reeked. Today when I ran passed that section the first time; I noticed a sign but didn’t stop to read it. After the second pass, I busted up laughing and on the third pass, I stopped to take a picture. Guess I wasn’t the only one who thought it smelled 🙂

When the pain begins

So I followed through and went for a run this morning. Getting out of bed was so hard to do; sleep was not my friend last night. Finally managed to drag myself out and hit the road. I could feel my ankle as I started down the driveway, uh oh 😦

I did a route from my house and my mother came too. Usually she walks most of it while I run ahead, usually circling back to her again. She has been adding more running into though, nice! I was dragging today. My ankle hurt, I was tired and it was already getting hot at 9:30 in the morning. Seriously? On the upshot, I got to test my new shorts!

The run route takes us by a cemetery, up a few hills, and down a few hills. Then there are alleys to run through as well as a school, with a few more inclines. I really should be better at hills than I am.

Today’s run was very slow going, but I completed just about 5 miles. While I may wish it was faster, (a lot) it still adds to my training. 😦 I also completed the required 155 squats for the squat challenge that I started on July 1. What was I thinking? I then spent part of my day slacking and icing my ankle. The pain needs to go away.

I was planning on running a few tomorrow but I may push that back to Saturday. My town is currently being invaded by the barely controlled chaos that is the fair. BBQ, funnel cakes and carnies abound!!! I have tickets to a concert tomorrow so I am going to walk down do the fairgrounds and wander around for a couple of hours. That counts right? Ha! Maybe if I wasn’t also planning on consuming one of those afore mentioned funnel cakes. 🙂 And maybe a pretzel. Eating healthy can get back on track on Saturday too. I thought it was hilarious that Word Press chose to highlight the last picture in my last post. All that yummy, fatty goodness right up top 🙂

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