Ouch!

I originally "tweaked" my left ankle, on my last warm-up run in Oklahoma before going to SLC for the half marathon. I taped it up for the marathon and made it thru with no problems. However, it has continued to bother me since then, although it seemed to get no worse (or better). Then the weekend of May 14-16, I ran 5 miles that Friday evening then did a 6-miler on Sunday. The next day, the ankle was pretty sore and had a sort of burning sensation going on throughout the day. It seemed to improve a bit as the week went on but I didn't run all week until Thursday. I ran 4 miles that evening, and after I got home and showered I examined my ankles and there was noticeable swelling in the left ankle.

I'm getting a bit concerned about it now because of this and I skipped running this weekend (the first weekend I haven't run at all since I began running this year). And my intention is to not run any this week. I'll see how it is this weekend and hopefully be able to get a run in then. It's definitely feeling better now than it did at this time last week, so I'm hopeful that a few days of no running will do the trick.