It's been far too long since I posted. I had so many ideas on what to post for my official runiversary (1/16/13 in case you were curious) and then I got injured and got mad at the running world. Other peoples posts about running made me seethe with anger over my second injury in a year. Why me? It doesn't flipping matter why, I'm on the way back. Today I'm being brave and picking the abandoned blog back up. Below are the details....all of them.
The week before the Pilgrim Pacer 1/2 Marathon I told you all that I twisted my ankle, but wasn't worried about it since I finished the run and it didn't really hurt. I should have known better. The next week I ran the Pilgrim Pacer and something in my right knee/shin area started to hurt. It was close enough to my knee that I thought it was my ITband which both ticked me off and confused me. I did all that physical therapy on both sides shouldn't my right side be "immune" to ITband issues after all that? Yeah...it wasn't my ITband. Fast forward to Sander's Saunter (which I still haven't written up yet...I'm not a good blogger) and it started to hurt more. I still thought it was ITband. The week after Sander's Saunter I met up with Mish for a 14 mile cluster of a training run at a trail in my hometown. It hurt a lot and all the stretches I'd learned for ITband issues didn't seem to be helping. Hmmm...
Maybe you're thinking I should have stopped running, or gone to the doctor...yeah me too. Keep reading.
Then I ran an impromptu half marathon over two locations in one day. It still hurt, doubt about ITband was starting to creep in and I twisted the ankle again on the Flatrock trail. No big deal...I've twisted that ankle a hundred times...it's still runnable.
Winter hit. Snow, ice, blurg. Run a bit, rest a lot, run a bit. Full on denial mode. Blurg...I'm seriously thick sometimes. Just call me Mrs. thick thickety thick face from thicktown thickannia.
Ran the Groundhog run 10K in the caves under KC (which I wrote up later and which you can find here). It hurt and I noticed that my foot, at about 4 miles in, felt floppy like I didn't have control of it anymore. Damn...maybe I really need to see somebody about this.
After that race on a Wednesday night @ Clinton Lake with Story hawk I twisted my ankle for the third time. By Friday I was at the doctor requesting a PT consult. Running through it didn't heal it. Denial didn't heal it. Honestly PT didn't heal it, but it helped. A break from running and the addition of PT helped the most. To be truthful I'm still working on it. It still hurts, it still sucks, but I won't give up. I will resurrect my ankle, my running life & I will get to FlatRock in September.
