I was up at 4:30 am to do my long run, felt really good this morn. was hopeing to do a 20 miler. Started out my long morn run routine with some light strecthing, ate a cliff bar. took a shot of carb boom, some ibuprofen, and took a cooler of water and sports drink out to GU corner. It was about 5am and it is still a little dark so I try to run towards the center of the road. About a block into my run I heard and felt this popping noise in my letf ankle an went to the ground. I immeditley thought I had broken my ankle. I layed there for a few minuets trying to get over the nauseating feeling in my stomach, and prayed dessperatley that my ankle was not broken. I totally rolled my ankle over somthing, but I did not see it. As I layed there and looked back in the road I could see this lump right were I had been running. I hobbled over to the lump and discovered it was a potato, yes a stupid potato in the middle of the road. Man Iwas so ticked off. Who would leave a stupid potato in the road? Anyway I tryed walking on my left foot and it did'nt feel to bad, so I thought I would run out to GU corner and see how it would do. Stupid thought, because by the time I got to GU corner my ankle was pretty sore . So I hobbeled home and took my shoe and sock off. My ankle was already swollen and starting to change to a black and blue color. I have been iceing it off and on and hope to get back out on the road soon. Does anybody know how long I should give a sprained ankle to heel before I start running on it again? This has me so ticked off I was really getting into my marathon training and getting excited about SGM. Moral off the strory I guess is watch out for stupid potatos in the road, arrrrrrr. I managed to get in 4.13 miles in 45:35. | 