I twisted my ankle on Thursday's 6-miler. At mile 5, I took a wrong step on Rice's path and almost went down. Fear shot through my body before the pain did, and in fact, the pain wasn't that bad. It twinged, but I was able to keep jogging slowly. The I kept it wrapped Thursday evening and all day today.
I went for a 10-miler this morning. Despite the bit of humidity, altogether the weather cooperated. My legs felt so heavy and full of dead weight, probably because I've run more miles in the past 7 days than I've run in a week since April. I realized that I overshot my distance, and since my achilles started pulling at mile 9, I old-man shuffled the remaining mile and then did a 1 mile cool-down.
Sunday: 10 miles
Tuesday: 6 miles
Thursday: 6 miles
Saturday/today: 11 miles
Total this week: 23 miles.
Total in the past 7 days: 33 miles.
I've been running maybe 15 miles a week (maximum), so the double in mileage is starting to take its toll a bit. Next week I'll be back down to 23-25 miles, but I won't have two long runs within 7 days.
Oh, and I finally finished "Crime and Punishment" this morning! It took me 7 weeks longer than I wanted, but I hadn't as much time as I wanted, and it's so heavy that I needed to put aside a significant chunk of time to do it, but could never find the time.
I have to go back to my classroom in a bit to get the next novel, "Cold Mountain." I'm really looking forward to that one. Hopefully I can knock that one out in 3 weeks, especially since I also need to read "The Grapes of Wrath" soon, too.
Later!
2 comments:
WOW, big week. I never count the previous week's long run in this week when I go long on Sunday. Then my next week is screwed up. :)
Ouch! I'm no expert but it definitely sounds like doubling your mileage in one week is not a good plan! Hope you feel better soon.
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