Blake Bennions running

Wrecked my ankle on the canal road during a 4 on 2 off workout... not sure if it's a moderate to severe sprain or dislocated/broken. Going to the doctor now.

It's broken, recovery will be 4-8 weeks... that sucks. Not even sure what to do for cross training these first couple weeks, sounds like I can start biking by mid July. Knowing I'm about to lose a lot of fitness hurts a lot more than the ankle, was really looking forward to Des news. Really felt like I was approaching the best shape of my life... oh well, I'll be back to where I am now by this fall at latest.

Bought a hydraulic rowing machine off Facebook marketplace and gave it a go tonight. I went about as hard as the machine would let me go and worked up buckets of sweat but my heart rate apparently only averaged 119 with a max of 150... I think that seems too low for how hard it felt but who knows. Machine is nice because I can do modified rows where I don't use my legs at all while my ankle is healing... wish the resistance went a little higher.

40 minutes of rowing. PA at the sports medicine/orthopedist office says it's most likely broken but it's possible what they're seeing on the x ray is scar tissue from previous injuries to this ankle. He said it doesn't really matter for recovery, best case scenario I'm back to running in 4-6 weeks. I assume that means like baby jogging with an ankle brace for a mile at first- but if I could be there by the end of July that would be incredible.

Got a somewhat beat up 21 gear bike for $40 on Facebook marketplace today and found a free training block. I can bike and swim and walk in my boot, which is a lot better than waiting 6 weeks to do anything but rowing like I'd feared.

30 minutes of rowing.

31 minutes of biking. Felt good but I kept my broken ankle flexed the whole time to avoid any sudden movements or flipping of the pedal which made my ankle pretty sore.

I actually consistently got up to aerobic heart rate level for most of the bike. It's really hard to get above even 120 on the rowing machine. I'm thinking I'll do 15-20 minute warm up rowing and then 30-45 minutes biking most days. I think I'll preserve a lot of my fitness and be back in at least as good of shape by September.

15 minutes row warm up

47 minutes on the bike averaging heart rate of 146

Ankle definitely seems broken, I can feel it more clearly now that the inflammation has gone down a bit.