Ultrasonography

Yesterday I visited a doctor who checked my ankles with ultrasonograph. Hopefully he has found the root cause of my continuous ache in the ankle. He told me several interesting things.

1. I have too large interarticular spaces in general. I can do nothing about it, just live with it and make the muscles around as strong as possible. This is the main reason I twist my ankles so often. I will begin special exercises for my ankles.

2. I have got some kind of liquid in my right ankle, which prevent the ankle to move properly and creates a pain. This liquid must be absorbed and to do that, I will take some pills. (I hope it works).

3. I should start to run as much as it does not hurt. I like this kind of advise. My previous doctor just told me - "don't do anything"

I am very positive about my running future now and I hope to be back on trail soon.

The winter is over?

Probably not yet. But days are longer, air is warmer and snow is gone. For now. This would be ideal for more intensive running. I really deserve to run, to feel the fresh wet air in the woods, to hear the birds talk and ... But my ankle still does not allow me to do it. I tried several times to run on flat surface, but I can do it just for a short while. So I am just walking.
Last Saturday I took my bike out for the first time this year. I wanted to bike for about an hour. Unfortunately, after 2 miles I developed a flat. I had a reserve inner tube with me, but ... I forgot to take a pump :-(. So I just walked back.

I hope next time it will be better.

Back in the training ... may be

This week I will try to start running again. Just slowly, carefully and on flat surface. I do not feel any pain in the ankle during walking, so it may work. However, I am still wearing brace to protect my ankle. I have also scheduled to visit a specialist doctor, who will hopefully help me to prevent such injuries in the future.

Last Saturday we had a running race in Kurim. I did not run, of course, but I helped to organize it and also took some pictures. There was a not bad weather for running, but on some places the surface was icy and so dangerous. Some runners were even running in shoes with nails.

"Kids at the start of their 1 mile race"

Injury again

On Saturday I was racing in 10k race in Radostice. Very nice race, perfect nature scenery. Just it is difficult because of the weather, that is usually here in January. A lot of mud and pieces of ice.
I did not run it very fast and I enjoyed it even the conditions were not perfect.
But then it happened...

It has been 5 months since I twisted my right ankle. And on Saturday I did it again. :-(.
At least I could use the help of one spectator, that helped me to get to the finish line and my friend helped me to get home.

It means, that I cannot have any running plans for this year. And may be I will need to completely stop my running as my ankle is strictly against it.

No race schedule yet

I did not plan the race schedule for 2009 yet. I just know I want to run marathon or 1/2 Ironman this year (finally). I had the same plan for last year, but was not able to complete it.
After my ankle injury in the fall and a lack of exercise, I am in a bad shape. I need to slowly increase my running mileage (15 miles last week is really poor) and definitely I need to start swimming in the pool. I will not set any dates for races until I get to a better shape.

Running again

I am getting old. At least my "friends" told me that when I first came to work after Christmas. They had a good reason for that, because I was not able to turn my head without turning my whole body. On Saturday morning, when I was getting up, my neck was blocked. I really could not do anything, just lay horizontal.
Today I feel much younger and I am glad to run my first miles in 2009.

New Year's post

It's been sooo looong since I posted my latest post. Isn't it time to renew my blog? The start of the New Year may be the good time for it.

It is also a good time to set goals (as I need to do for my employer also). So my sport's related goals may look like this:

1/ get rid of the 20 pounds overweight (running and biking will be much easier ;-))
2/ finish my first 1/2 ironman or similar distance (do I really want to set this goal?)
and finally - regularly send posts to my multisport blog (is 1 post per month enough?)

Hmm,these goals are definitely well measurable, but ... are they also achievable? Let's hope they are.