Welcome to the Weekly Run Down! Thanks for joining Kim and me for our new linkup. Well we may have sprung forward but wow it sure still feels like winter around these parts. I am looking forward to the later sunsets this week.
Weekly Run Down Springing Forward
I think I mentioned last week that my ankle area had been bothering me. Well, that situation is still going on unfortunately. After having some more pain in my ankle after Tuesday’s run, I went in for a visit with my friendly Ortho. Me: “So I am here for you to tell me that it’s nothing and I can still run the Cherry Blossom 10 miler in 4 weeks”. Fortunately, he does think it’s a minor tendonitis and that I can keep training. He did suggest a few days off, ice and motrin. So, I have not run since Tuesday and it feels like months already.
Here’s my not very much running Weekly Run Down:
Monday: 40 m Peloton, 60 m strength training + 2.5 mile walk
Mondays are always one of my bigger work out days. The biking and the walking do not seem to bother my ankle. It’s just the running ugh.
Tuesday-3.25 miles running
My ankle area was killing me after this morning’s run. This pretty much solidified the fact that something was going on. My smile was pre-run.
Wednesday- 90m strength training and kickboxing
Got a stern reprimand from my trainer about not taking enough time to do maintenance and stretching. So..we did lots of stretching today too. Now to make myself keep it up.
Thursday- 2.5 mile power walk
Decided to give myself a few days off of running to let my ankle area feel better. So power walk it was. I met up with the run crew, took our International Women’s Day photo and watched them run off ahead. Ugh not fun. Why does one day of missed running feel like 100 days in real time? And then I baked brownies. Best cure for anything!
Friday- 50 m Peloton cycle, 10 min core, 10 min yoga for hips and 5 min total body stretch
Made my own complete workout to hit everything I needed. Loving how much variety I have with the Peloton.
Saturday- 60 m Hot yoga sculpt class and stretching
My ankle area is already feeling a whole lot better. I am going to wait until Tuesday run again. Fingers crossed.
Sunday-Power Walk on the plan
And That’s my Weekly Run Down! Thanks for joining us for the link up and please remember not to drop your link and “run”. Hope to see you tomorrow for Meatless Monday.
UGH!!!! I hope your ankle is feeling better and won’t be a buzzkill going forward. I know the feeling, though, of watching other friends run and not being able to join them. Hugs to you…I’ll try to send some healing karma your way.
Thanks it is feeling much better already. I am going to do a power walk to today and tomorrow and run on Tuesday. Fingers crossed!
big bummer about the ankle. I have some tendonitis because i stopped wearing my orthotic insoles. I know… I shouldn’t have but things were going so wrong with my foot that I was not convinced they were helping or harming. And believe me, my ankle still hurts. I went to the physio several times and he basically said nothing I can do except wear my insoles. Thanks. ugh. (new insoles for 3 weeks, no improvement). I get that you need to rest it now to be able to run the 10 Miler in 4 weeks. I’m still running because I’m going to have an 8 week rest in about 2 weeks time…
really hope it feels better next week! you did what you could and still had a successful week!
It is frustrating when things are going well and then boom! My Dr did suggest getting inserts and I have had them in the past. I also was never sure if they did anything or not.
Sorry that your ankle is still bothering you 🙁 But I’m glad that it’s nothing too serious and that is started to feel better by the end of the week.
Thanks it is feeling better already and will wait until Tuesday to run on it again. Cross fingers for me!
Glad your ankle feels better. It better cooperate for your race in a few weeks!!
You are telling me! Fingers crossed
I’m so sorry to hear that your ankle is bothering you. Doesn’t it know that spring is coming and we need be ready to enjoy the mild temperatures? Hopefully, it will respond to rest.
Thanks for the linkup!
Seriously I know! Not happy but it’s feeling better already so optimistic
Yeah, Winter is so not over up here. But there will be a warming trend.
I’m sorry about the ankle. I am glad that you are giving it some rest!
I’d like to say that brownies will cure everything, but the older I get, the more careful I have to be about what I eat and it’s still a constant struggle to keep the weight down.
OH I hear you on the brownies 🙂 It was only a temporary fix
Oh wow sorry to hear about the tendonitis. Sounds like you’re doing everything you can to let it heal up. Still a great week of workouts! Um yeah I kind of hoped it’d me more spring-like when I returned from Tokyo. Not so much.
Today it feels like spring but it was snowing 2 days ago. Happens every year! Yeah not fun on the ankle thing
Oh no, I hope your ankle feels better quickly! This winter hasn’t been very good to many of us, injury wise…
Thanks for the linkup!
I know it’s not been fun the last 2 weeks. Glad you are doing better!
Glad your ankle’s feeling better- I have some exercises I do when mine feel tweaky and they seem to work.
I need to be better at maintenance!
Oh I’m sorry to hear about your ankle. But it sounds like taking the time to rest was the right move. And you clearly kept active! Hope you’ll be good to go for Cherry Blossom!
I hope so too I am a little nervous about it
I am so over this weather! Sorry to hear about your ankle. I do hope it feels better in a few days. My ankle finally seems to be better — two weeks seems like forever. I’ve been tempted to do Yoga Sculpt, but all those lunges can stress an ankle too. Glad it didn’t bother you.
Ugh the ankle strain is tough but at least cycling does not seem to bother it. Sculpt was tough!
Glad your ankle is feeling better!
Thanks it is starting to feel better. Fingers crossed I can run this week
Glad to hear the ankle is feeling improved!! I was thinking this recap was not going to have a happy ending 🙂 I hope the rest fixes it. Fun pyramid you’re making there. I see you all have skills!!
It is feeling a little better and fingers crossed that I can run on it this week. Thanks!
I hope your ankle feels better with some rest. Why do the days off from running go so slow?
They sure do no joke! Thanks fingers crossed
Glad you’re finding some improvement and that your doc thinks it’s minor. Frustrating how weight bearing isn’t something we can avoid, but glad you found exercises that didn’t hurt.
It is super frustrating! Fingers crossed it goes better this week
I love that shoulder stretch on the Bosu – I need to do it more often. GLad the ankle is better!!
I love the stretch as well.Feels so good now I just need to take the time to make myself do them.
I hope your ankle feels better! You did a great job staying active without running in the later part of the week.
Thanks fingers crossed for my run tomorrow!
Injuries are always so frustrating but it looks like you found lots of ways to keep moving!
Nice work this week and I hope your ankle feels better soon!
Thanks! Injuries are so frustrating fingers crossed for tomorrow’s run
That’s great that your ankle was beginning to feel better by the end of the week! And that’s good news that it doesn’t hurt during cycling or walking. Fingers crossed that it lets you run this week 🙂
Thanks hoping I can get some miles in tomorrow. Thanks for adding in your meatless Monday recipe today too!
There’s nothing worse then feeling something is not right especially when you are training for something! But so glad doc thinks it’s not too serious and you can still train. Keep listening to your body. Thanks for hosting this new link-up. I need this for accountability but also to keep up with this beautifully motivating running community.
Thanks fingers crossed for running tomorrow. I love the accountability as well. Great to have you join us
Fingers crossed that your ankle stays happy! Why do our bodies want to fall apart at the worst times!
seriously I know!!
SO happy to hear you can run the Cherry Blossom and that the ankle is doing well!! Wooohooo!!!
Well fingers crossed for that. I am going to take it slow until then thanks
ugh! Hope the ankle pain turns out to be minor as your dr. thinks.
I hope so too fingers crossed!
I am so frustrated for you!
You still got in a lot of great workouts, and you are right – brownies do fix everything.
I’m sorry you didn’t get to run with your group on International Women’s Day. That must have been hard 🙁
Thanks frustrating yes but I guess it comes along with the territory.
Hoping by the time you read this that your ankle is better. When I read your line about your trainer giving you a stern reprimand, I thought “Wow! Maybe I should get a trainer to keep me on track!”
He does not shy away from letting me know when I am over doing it and where I am slacking. Ankle is doing a little better but still there. You know how that is. Fingers crossed for getting a run in Thursday
Boo for your ankle bothering you! I hope the rest helps it feel much better and you can get back to your normal running!
Sounds like you still had some great workouts despite the lack of running!
I am also guilty of not always stretching and taking care of my body outside of my workouts! I have been trying to work on that this month!
I hope so too fingers crossed on the ankle feeling better soon thanks