ankle update

it's been about 14 weeks since my grand ankle injury of 9/25/05, never forget.

i've only started working on it for the past couple weeks. yeah, it's been that long without running. it feels like it's been that much longer.

i've started doing 45 minutes on the elliptical machine at resistance 6 or 7 to get my heart and legs back. i did a half a mile jog on a treadmill this past weekend and that felt good. tonight, i got to about the same distance and then the back of my ankle told me that i shouldn't keep going. :(

i just need to go slowly and get my ankle used to the pounding on the treadmill before i can take it outside.

it's going to be slow getting back to where i was before (5.4 miles on the parkway). i hope to be back in 5k shape for the may 14th komen philadelphia race for the cure. it's a nice leisurely 5k that i think anybody can do and train for in a month's time.