Easter Injury :(

My normal high level of busyness plus more has resulted in it being 2+ weeks since my last blog entry. And you know what it's like, once you slip behind, trying to catch up seems so hard that sometimes you stop trying and you never catch up. Ah .... but with daylight savings finishing last night, I have an extra hour this morning and so here I am catching up - with blogging at least (let's be realistic, there's only so much catching up you can do with only one extra hour. I need about 100 extra hours at the moment!). Now .... where was I? .... ah yes, Ballarat ... After our long weekend in Ballarat I had another average (read: tired) few days of training leading into Easter. I think 18+hrs of driving over 3-4 days negated the relaxation effect of the weekend in the country as did being over busy at work trying to compensate for the time the Easter public holidays were about to take away from productivity. Given all that, we were very glad to have Easter at home. We got some ticks off the chores list, thoroughly enjoyed some time at the National Folk Festival, and I got through the running block I had set myself ... well, almost(!) .... in the last one km of my 23km run I turned my ankle (see pic). Yikes! Fortunately, I was so close to home that I could hobble the last km and get the ice onto it straight away. I was super diligent with the ice, having it on/off on 20min cycles for 2 hours immediately post injury and I'm sure that made all the difference in the world. I was back running a couple of days later, albeit tentatively, as running on the flat with very predictable flexion and extension was ok but the slightest lateral movement was dangerously painful. It's still blue now but not swollen any more and I'd describe it as uncomfortable rather than painful. Given that I'm heading into marathon taper week, I'm confident that it should be "all good" by marathon day.