I feel GREAT!

This week pretty much same as last. Just a little bit more on each.

Went for an 8 mile run yesterday, felt good on the run. Started the rider up when I got home, mowed for 1/2 hour. Started push mower up and mowed the rest, but as I neared completion my ankle started to hurt pretty bad. Only hurts with weight bearing, and I can feel a ligament all swollen in there. If I get up and walk around it's kinda painful for the first few steps, and gets a little better as I move on. Just sitting here I feel great.

Today was a long ride, but my long ride is going to wait. I actually think cycling wouldn't hurt to bad, but I'm going full stop before this thing gets any worse. We'll see about sunday's long run.

I think I have a decent base and am far enough out that this won't be a big deal, but only if it doesn't turn into a full blown injury (I'd qualify it as more of an aggravation, currently).

The frustrating thing is that it didn't come on slowly, like any other overuse injury I've had. I usually feel tightness or slight pains somewhere that build over a couple of workouts. This was after a workout that felt normal and actually pretty decent. Just finished a 27 mile running week!

That's exactly where it is, and I had come to an identical (self) diagnosis! How bad did yours get? I feel like mine is feeling a little better already. I don't feel at all like I need a brace, so hopefully I caught mine before it got as bad as yours.

Ok, it's been a heck of a week. I took a few days off on purpose because I could still feel something in the ankle. Figured it would be better to take a little time now and come back healed up.

Then I got sick. In the middle of summer I got a freaking virus of some sort. Feverish for two days and still cold type symptoms for the past few days. Forced me to hold off on working out. As of this morning I feel nothing in the ankle, but I did yesterday morning (though much diminished pain).

I'd guess the illness was from weakened immune system from full stop on working out. The same thing usually happens to me if I haven't worked out for an extended period and then come on strong.

Anyway, I think I'll start back Monday. I'll ease into it with a bike ride...

Starting to worry I won't be ready come Oct 5...

Update again... I got poison ivy, had to get a shot, reacted to the shot, took a friggen ton of Benadryl for about two weeks. There went another week of training, so I completely gave up. I'm ashamed to admit this here, but I haven't swam in over a month, and my riding has taken a huge dive. Running has been steady, but not spectacular. I've completely bailed on my HIM plans. Will make another go some other day.

Current short term goal is to run a decent 5k at the end of the month, but I ran a 5k a couple of weeks ago and my time had dropped by over a minute since the spring.

Wife and her best friend are doing a sprint this weekend, and another good friend just did his first IM at IM Wisconsin (9:36) so I'm feeling like a bum. I plan on hitting it all again the first of December. Just want to run focus right now (have been bike commuting to work, so some miles there)

Ironic end for a thread labeled "I feel great!"...

Just the end of this thread. I've got a tab open looking at tri bikes, so defintely not THE end. I have one goal every year and that's to be better than the last. Even without this race, I have achieved that. I intend to continue towards that goal with my remaining few running races as well as whatever 2015 brings. My only regret is not starting a HM plan for the race that I've run the last two years in mid October. I plan on running it, but I just can't be competitive at this point.