Most of my close friends know this, but I have not yet acknowledged it yet here, I messed up my ankle pretty good the Friday before
LT100. I was stupidly trying to prove something on Hope Pass and rolled it bad with a half mile to the finish. (I had a damn good time going too -- 2:10 round trip to the summit!) My ankles are strong and I've survived numerous rolls, but there was no pulling out of it. I am guessing at least a grade II sprain. Obviously, that isn't great with only 6 weeks left until Bear (only 4 now, really). As a result, I wound up missing my opportunity to pace Chuck and have spent the better part of this week cobbling together any kind of training I could in between icing and PT work. Fortunately, I managed about 6 total hours this week with my bike. And, I doubled my usual cross training work. Right now, the ankle is improving and I can probably consider hour long runs. But, my margin for error is basically zero. The greatest risk right now seems to be the possibility that I re-aggravate it doing too much too soon. In particular, I am concerned about doing big vertical or technical trail runs. Any setback could make training the next 4 weeks impossible. Ugh.
The upside of this challenge is that I am not overly concerned with the big picture stuff. I am just trying to take it one day at a time and keep improving, walking the fine line between continuing to train and not being stupid.
| Day | Miles | Notes |
| Monday | Off | Strength Training |
| Tuesday | Off | Bike to Work |
| Wednesday | Off | Rest |
| Thursday | Off | Strength Training |
| Friday | Off | Biking and Stair Master |
| Saturday | 4 | Easy run and 20 mile mtn bike ride |
| Sunday | 5 | Open Space |
| Total | 9 | |
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