I've since been building up again for the past month, nothing crazy, just trying to get out and run, even while in Queretaro, and my fitness was coming back nicely, and I was enjoying being out for hour runs or so. Then, on the morning of June 26th, on the Mesa trail in Chataqua park, which I have run maybe 1000 times, I was coming down a hill on a morning run and BAM! my right ankle just went sideways. It's a rocky trail, and I haven't the slightest clue exactly what I hit/stepped on, but I have never heard a joint crack like that before. It was terrible. At the moment it happened, I was a solid 2 miles out from my car, and I couldn't put any weight on it. I ended up hoping tree to tree back to the parking lot, which got pretty amusing as hikers started coming in on the trail, wondering what the hell I was doing.
In any event, following Gibby logic ("Ankle injuries aren't real injuries."), I took a day off, then started running again. Which led to it not just not improving, but getting exponentially worse. Not good. So I went in to the Doctor, where they x-rayed it, only to tell me that my ankle looked arthritic and like I was an 80 year old man, but it wasn't broken. And they put me on crutches for two weeks.
unfortunately, even the crutches didn't exactly help, and a week later, I had to go in to get an MRI, which revealed a full tear of the calcaneofibular ligament, and anterior talofibular ligament, but the posterior talofibular and ant. inferior talofibular were intact, as were all the tendons. So at the moment, the prognosis is PT, and up to 8 weeks recovery time. Boo.
Capon Ridge Running Camp starts in two days, and this will be the first time in 9 years of attending I won't be able to run at camp. Even post knee surgery I found a way to make it work. I am bummed.
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| This fun bruising has lasted for a good couple of weeks.... |
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