No...effing...way...

I have a bit of extra time before work, so I wanted to tell you guys....I FLIPPING TWEAKED MY ANKLE...A-FREAKIN'-GAIN.

I'm telling you... training for this marathong is getting me more and more frustrated and it's getting harder to stay motivated. It's a combination of crappy weather conditions (I will NEVER be training for another marathong in the winter...NEVER AGAIN), and injury, and it's sucking...hardcore. I'm lucky I haven't caught anyone's winter cold... yet (knock on wood).

So my story is basically, I went for a run while I was still in Colorado. This was 3 days after my horrible 12 miler and I figured, any run after THAT monstrosity of a run just had to be better. The temperature was a bit cooler, but I had my warm clothes, so no big deal. I decided to take the same route as I did on Friday (12 miler), and just go 2 miles out and 2 miles back.

WELL. Around the first mile and a half, I turn that corner and I see a bus approaching the bus stop, so I decided to kick it up a notch and pass the people waiting before they boarded the bus. I begin running just a tad faster and just as I'm passing the whole bus stop filled with people along with the actual BUS filled with people... MY ANKLE GIVES OUT. WTF.

At this point, the pain is all too familiar, and I just hobble off to to the side, hoping that not everyone would be staring at me. I couldn't look up out of sheer embarrassment. How does one run... in a straight and forward direction, in broad daylight, with nothing in the way, trip and hurt herself??! I was so frustrated that after the pain somewhat subsided, I turned around and went back to the house. F*%& THIS SH@#.

I wanted to amputate right then and there.

I was able to jog back and things are a little okay now. I logged in a 3 mile run today and the foot felt okay. I took some time off to let the ankle rest, and now I feel like my body is more out of shape from all the stoopy rest I've been doing. Everything just seems to be getting more and more frustrating...

BUT, the show must go on, the world must keep turning, and I must keep running. I have a 14 mile run to log in tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.

HAPPY FRIDAY, HAPPY RUNNING!