I’d been looking forward to running today. I’d done just over 200 situps and all the filler exercises that get me through the situps, which means something like 400 leg-raise things, around sixty pressups (my most hated activity) and so forth. I’d been held up by people ‘popping around’ and talking as well as random bits of web news that caught my eye. By the time I set out running I was itching for the exercise. After approximately three minutes of running, whilst turning a corner on some perfectly safe sidewalk, in front of two guys off to play football, I fell. I fell badly and sprained by ankle, for no reason other than the fact that my left foot landed oddly. And I’d been hoping for a fast time; this was making a mockery of those hopes. Click the image for a larger picture of how little of my desired distance I actually covered.
In red is the area that I ran from my house to the drop point. In blue is the rest of the area that I should have run, but somehow wasn’t allowed to by my foot. Not it’s lolling about on my desk, looking swollen and pleased with itself. Damn foot.
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Drat. I’d say I’d hope this was just one of those “24-hour” sprains, but it sounds worse than that from the description. Do have a quick and easy recuperation, anyway.
Looking on the bright side, I guess you can still get some good cardio surfing porn sites…
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You should cycle! I cycle, you see, and I’m not in danger of spraining my ankle. I’m just in danger of being knocked out by one of those evil taxi drivers.
just get back to those exercises – and dont run too soon