I didn’t mention this when it happened because of SHAME, but a few weekends ago I went running early in the morning and, around mile 7 or so, started feeling some twinging at the back of my ankle. It wasn’t too bad and it wasn’t constant, but it was a sharp enough pain that it actually made me stop running and call Nate to come pick me up because I didn’t want to risk it becoming an actual injury.

(Ultimate humiliation, by the way. I still feel embarrassed. I’ve never not finished a run before.)

It didn’t hurt when I walked or anything, but I gave it a few days before I ran again. While there was still a little pain on the first run, it wasn’t too bad. It slowly got better and I limited my runs to my shorter distance (17 miles) instead of doing any long runs.

Today, though, I tried my first long run since the twinging and was able to do a marathon with no twinging/pain/whatever.

So that’s cool.

Hopefully it was just a little bit of tendonitis? I feel like I’d experienced that pain before, but not since I really first started running. I’m 98% sure I have some shin splints* going on in the opposite leg, so maybe I’ve been running weird to compensate for that pain. Also, I think I was wearing my old pair of shoes a bit too loose. Also also, I did that 60K several weeks ago and was running in less than ideal conditions for about half of it, so maybe that angered the tendon or muscle or whatever the hell was twinging. I’m not actually sure.

Hopefully it’s all better now and I can get back to my regularly scheduled running programming and possibly do a better 60K before the Calgary Marathon virtual cutoff so that I don’t have to count that pathetic 10:30 minute pace one.

*It’s either that or, like, a hairline fracture. Not sure which and too scared to find out.