DISASTER

blargh. My ankle is broken. fail. and it's my right, so I can't even drive. And there are no crutches in this damn city, so I am hopping around my house until tomorrow. Boo. No school, nothing. Not sure how long I will be out of commission, hopefully not long. I just need to be told if I have to stay off it, or if I will be able to work and walk on it.

Here's what happened: Jake and I were out for a run with the dog. It's fall, so everything is wet and there are wet leaves all over the ground. I guess I hit a rock or something and my foot rolled right under me. I didn't fall, but I think that may have made it worse since I then put all of my weight onto the end of my fibula. I am sure I heard a pop, but it may have just been my foot hitting the ground. Then I stopped and had to sit right away. It hurt soooo bad. Pretty soon I knew I had to get up and try to get over by the car before it hurt too bad to get up. My whole foot and a little bit of my lower leg hurt. I got home and then iced and elevated it, but even ice hurt, and Jake said that I was making too many pain faces and I needed to go to the doctor.

So we went to the doctor and I waited until 5 for the doctor to finally come it. She said that it was probably a sprain since I had a moderate amount of swelling, but sent me for an xray too. Once I got the xray, I had one of the providers look at it, and they saw a hairline fracture on the bottom of my fibula. So it's badly sprained and probably broken. The doc who treated me today didn't see the fracture so she said to stay off it tonight and to call my doctor tomorrow and they will see the xray and the radiologist's report. Hopefully I get good news tomorrow!

so....

shortly after that post (well the weekend of the 23rd), I took 4 days off since I worked nights and it effed up my sleep shedule. This week, I am back on the 5 times a week thing.

Today: ran 2 (!!!) laps around Padden in less than 51:00. I thought I was a 10:00 mile person, but apparently I am getting faster. Yay.

Yesterday: swam for 30 mins at the Y.

Day before: did weights at the Y (quick 1/2 hour session since I was in a rush)

Tuesday: ran more than one lap, but less than 2 around Padden. Prob about 1.75 (got most of the way around and then turned around so I wouldn't be tempted to get back in the car).

The dog has been okay when he sees other dogs. Sometimes he goes crazy and makes loud snort noises that I am sure scare the crap out of the other people with dogs. Oh well. At least I can control him with the leash and gentle leader.

ahh

I guess I am one of those people who works out 5 or 6 days a week. I like it :)

Today I drove the gym and did a fast, hilly mile on the TM, and then went upstairs for a core strength class, and then headed back down stairs and did three sets of 5 different arm workouts. It was definitely a good day.

Yesterday, took the doggie for an easy run downtown. We hit the South Bay Trail for about half an hour.

Wednesday I rested since I had to watch kids in the morning and then work in the evening.

Tuesday I ran to the gym and then did some arms and core and ran home.

Monday I took the dog for a short run on the trails near our house.

Sunday, Jake and I took the dog to Padden for a run. It was really nice to run w 2 buddies :)

So that's 5 days this week. I bet I will work out tomorrow too, and there is a 5k on Sunday morning that I want to do. It's a fundraiser for DVSAS. woot. I did the 10k version last year, but I want to try to make it a fast 5k this year. Hmmm. Huzzah.

class!!

Last night I went to a spinning/boot camp class at the Y. It is pretty much my dream for the Y to have boot camp classes, and this is a pretty good combo of cardio (spin) and core/strength stuff. We were on the bikes for about 45 mins and then did boot camp style jumping/lunging/whatever lines, THEN we did some upper body and then abs stuff. It was so hard. I was shaking so hard doing the upper body stuff. I find when I go to the gym that I don't know what to do with weights and stuff, so these will be good tools to bring with me to the gym next time I go. I will also try to make more of the classes.

Today the plan is to run the dog 5 miles at Lake Padden. Hope I can do 2 laps :)

Jake and I also ran on Sunday. The Interurban Trail is great for a nice, easy, just go run.

3 this week and a relay

I think I ran 3 times this week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Saturday we did a relay around Lake Padden. We each ran about 2.6 miles. Well Tyler did it twice under about 34 minutes total. What a jerk.

I did it in about 25 minutes. First mile was pretty fast. I should have taken off a bit slower, but it's cool. I still want to do 2 laps, but not when I run ass the first lap. I need to go slower for sure if I am going to run two laps. Hopefully I can run tomorrow too. I really need to take the doggie with me tomorrow.

Padden w the dog

Ran Padden with the dog and a friend today. It was great. I like running with other people. Which is odd because I tried it before with some people I had just met, but this is waay better.

One of these days, I want to do 2 laps around Padden. I think it didn't once last summer, but I need to keep doing it and running more.

2 firsts

Nighttime and a group run.

Okay, this wasn't the first nighttime run, but it was the first nighttime run with a headlamp. And first nighttime run that started truly at night--after 10p.

Also, ran with Jake and Tyler. That was great. Group runs are pretty sweet. I never thought I would like running in a group, but I love running with the dog, so I suppose running with people isn't much of a stretch. Hopefully we will be able to do this more. Glad Jake is running now.

The headlamp was fun :) Running at night though did mean that we mostly stayed on the sidewalks so no roots would jump out and scare us.

Weather: cool-ish/perfect. Clothes: capris and blue s/s. We did about 4 miles from Puget St to Fraser St to Woburn then back down the trails by the car dealerships to Lincoln St, then over to Moore St to the trail by the baseball fields back over by the Sportsplex to Puget St, then home.

Glad running and I are back on.

Nighttime

Ran at night for the first time. It was great. Mostly nice because of the company--the hubs and the doggie. We need to do that more often. Kept a nice easy pace, and could have kept going longer if it wasn't so dark out.

All around good run.

Running and biking

Ran w the doggie yesterday. It was a good run. He is finally growing to be pretty well-mannered. It wasn't the fastest run, but I did run the whole time and it felt pretty good.

We have also been going for more bike rides, but I think those have been making my back sore. My guess is that it's from my seat being too high, so I need to lower it and not lean forward so far. I hope that's the problem.