Subtle Pain

I went to the gym tonight with a mindset that I was going to try 3 easy miles and not push myself hard. It was planned to be just 3 very very easy, slow miles and nothing more, unless there was no pain what-so-ever.

My ankle hasn't bothered me since tuesday night, so I had a positive feeling about this run. I grabbed a towel, hopped on the treadmill, turned the tv channel to watch PTI on ESPN, turned on my tunes, and started a decent walk to warm-up a little bit.

Once I reached a tenth of a mile, I started a very slow jog. 5mph to be exact. There was a bit of a slight pain that wrapped around my ankle each time my heal came into contact with the belt of the thrillmill. It wasn't an excruciating pain, but it was more like an achy pain that was noticiable with each stride. Once I reached 1/3 of a mile, my breathing and strides were insynch and I didn't notice the pain as much anymore. Overall, I was able to fork over 3.3 miles and everything was perfect, except for my leg.

What I have noticed in the past week or so, is that when I start to run, there is a weird pain that a part of me tells me that I should stop. But, as stubborn as I can be, and as hard as I can be on myself, I run through it and it pretty much disappears. It is later, when I am not running anymore, possibly the next day even, when a pain that is worse than it was when I was running, shows up.

I don't know what to do. Many things run through my mind as to what the case is. So, from here, I will just plan to take my ibuprofen and then ice as much as I can over the next couple days. I will continue to stretch, as I have been really good about this over the past couple of weeks. Any ideas, thoughts, or comments would be greatly appreciated and helpful. Tonight I will refer to my Women's Running book to figure this out and decide what I need to do. This is a little frustrating and I don't want to make it worse.

Tomorrow will be a rest day.


On a light note, here is my new favorite snack. I like to call it Stacy's Trail Mix! Roasted peanuts, raisins, some m&m's, the rainbow goldfishes, and the pretzel goldfishes. Mmm.
Happy running, y'all.