On Monday, a friend of mine and I headed back down the 3 mile loop with the fantastic gravel path. She, not being an avid runner, set our pace, and I, having some lingering soreness in my ankles, was happy to follow her. We did a run/walk through the 3 mile loop, and I felt so good toward the end that I did a little sprint for kicks.

The fact that I am doing sprints for fun is a really weird thing because I, just last year, refused to sprint when my husband told me that sprinting would help me get faster in my distance running. Ha! I’ll show that me from last year!

Anyway, this run felt much better. I think it was the walking in between. My ankles were still sore, and I still walked funny the next day. However, the pain was diminished. I felt the way you feel when you start to lift weights and each successive day the soreness in your muscles decreases. However, the main pain was more acute and located on the inside of my foot wrapping just under the inner ankle bone.

Two days later, I felt good to go again.