You all may recall I hurt my left ankle last year, right before the SLC Marathon. It wasn't bad enough to prevent me from running, but it was enough to bother me when I was running. The injury hung on for the summer and I was beginning to resign myself to the fact that I'd have to live with it at least until I took some kind of extended break from running so it could heal up.
Then, toward the end of the summer I made some adjustments to my stride and over the next month or so, the pain in my ankle diminished and by the time I ran in the Route 66 Marathon in November it seemed to be completely healed up...at least it wasn't causing me any pain when running.
When I ran at South Lakes Park three(?) weeks ago there was a lot of patchy snow on the south end of the trail and I kind of danced through it on each of the 6 laps I ran. And to my dismay I found afterwards that the pain in my left ankle was back. I basically ignored it, other than maybe trying to stay extra light on my foot landings so I wouldn't make it worse. However, as I worked on stepping my mileage up over this stretch, it kept getting a bit more painful with each run.
Last week on the two runs I did on weekdays I only ran 3 miles each time because I was worried about making the ankle worse. This past weekend I ran 7 miles and felt pretty good...didn't have too much pain from the ankle, but then the next day it was quite sore, causing me to limp a bit when walking. I tried going for a run the next evening, but ended up only doing 2 miles because it was bothering me so much.
That was Tuesday and I haven't run any the rest of this week. It's felt quite a bit better the past couple of days, so I'm intending to go ahead and get a run in over the weekend and see how it is.
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