After a crappy couple days with the return of pain, I return back to running this week, hoping for an improvement.
Monday: 3 Miles
Late afternoon easy Misquamicut. Was cold and weak. No ankle pain, but felt funny and was unsure.
Tuesday: 5 Miles
Ran with Sam and Aaron on my usual out and back route. Other than some occasional annoying discomforts, I felt pretty good and smooth. Nice to keep in stride with someone else.
Wednesday: 4 Miles
Another pretty good run. Ankle felt weird but didn't have any pain or disruptions. Boring to basically run the same route everyday with the limited mileage and conditions I need for recovery.
Thursday: 5 Miles
Did the exact same loop as Wednesday's, only in reverse. Felt oddly cold, but besides some infrequent discomfort, ankle felt really good for the third day in a row.
Friday: 4 Miles
Went to watch my teammates run at the Yale Track Classic after school, and got my run in during a break between events. Not wanting to get lost in a city like New Haven, I opted for a more boring, but safer route utilizing the warm-up area around Yale Bowl. In all, I had to run 7 circular loops to get my mileage, but I felt smooth and I was able to go faster than usual. Gradually picked up the pace with little effort until my ankle/Achilles started to hurt, so I lowered it a notch.
Saturday: 4 Miles
Was a little nervous about potentially doing a workout with possible ankle pain, but knew if I waited any longer it would seriously impact any racing I did. Ankle felt a little weird on warm-ups, but not any worse than it had during the week. Workout was 10x200 w/60s recovery @31s each. I had Sam (all 10) and Aaron (first 6) to run with which helped with pacing. I thought this should be really easy and while I was glad my ankle felt just fine, the workout was a struggle. I'm sure some of it was that it was extremely windy out and I had leftover fatigue from driving the night before, but it seems like I've lost of a lot of fitness, considering this used to be very easy for me. My biggest problem was breathing. I was always seemed out of breath and my chest began hurt, which only got worse. Difficulty: 4/5. Both a good and bad workout. Good because I did a workout with no pain. Bad because I felt really out of shape.
Sunday: 5 Miles
Ran in the morning with Sam. Started from Avondale and ran all around the Misquamicut Club golf course, which was something different but pretty fun.
Weekly Total: 30 Miles
YTD Total: 67 Miles
Weekly Highlight: This was a surprisingly very good week. After being greeted with pain every time I've tried to come back, I was pleasantly surprised to feel good all week, even during a workout. At this point, discomfort is so minimal that it doesn't seem like the injury will come back. The highlight was every run this week. Getting better doesn't change that I won't much of a season, but it's still nice to actually run again.
Weekly Lowlight: Having to let the Yale Track Classic go by, officially losing what I originally hoped would be a shot to run a mid-8:30s 3K back in the beginning of the season.
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