Tanked..

Decided to test out the ankle for the first time last night. With AHM less than 2 weeks away, it's now or never. Armed with nice tight socks and an ankle guard, I took to the road. Immediately within a few steps, I felt the niggling sensation in my ankle but if there was anything that the Addidas Sundown experience has taught me, some pain can just be pushed through even if it bothers you the entire run.I actually felt pretty good after the first couple of km. Felt happy to be out running again and even the pain in the ankle felt good in some masochistic way.

Then at the 3.8km mark, I just completely crashed. I thought all I needed was a little breather, take a little walk and then start running again but when I tried, I just felt like I had nothing left in me. An empty tank. I remembered Fong words about running at a lower heart rate and thereby only using your fats as fuel and god knows I have plenty of that in reserve. So I tried, I slowed down to an almost walking pace but shuffled my feet decently enough to resemble some sort of jogging motion. Yet after 5 minutes of that, I could not do it any longer leaving me walking the remaining 2km back home. Any attempt to even start running again after that just left my slightly dizzy and worrying that I might just collapse into the uncovered drain next to me.

As runner after runner passed me, I felt real shitty. I tried to run through what I might have done wrong but in the end, I suspect it's a combination of a few reasons. The lack of sleep, the small amount of pasta I had eaten plus the fact that I hadn't done a run in weeks probably meant my body started burning up fuel a lot faster than expected.

Thoughts were that I most likely will have to pull out of the AHM. The end goal this year after all is Stanchart and I really should take it easy now to let my ankle have a chance to recover completely.

I still want to give it one more shot though, so maybe this weekend or something, I'm going to try taking to the road again. Hopefully I can get a decent run in this time.