Does anyone else's ankle hurt?

Despite several months of inactivity, my ankle actually hurts. I haven't done shit since last fall (just before the city chase).

I moved, I brewed beer, I worked...but I never worked out.

Some day soon I'll give this busted ankle a shot. Here's to hoping it doesn't hurt...and that I'll have some new stuff to post about. 

I'm a little tired

Lately I've been uninspired to blog. Yeah I know, it's a poor excuse, but it's all I've got. Since I have the day off today here's a little update.

City Chase 2008. Dude, it was way harder this year. I thought it was physically demanding last year, but I was wrong. This year it was harsh. Maybe we had bad luck and chose all the physical chase points, but I think not. tc has a great round up of the various points we collected. I must say, Team Strangely Asian rocked it again! Somehow we finished in exactly the same place as we did last year. I actually feel really good about our finish because there were far more teams this year. Oh and yeah, we didn't break up either. :-* tc

Physical Therapy on my ankle is going OK. It ends in about two weeks.

I ran yesterday. 5.1 miles in 50:05. It felt pretty good the whole way, and when I figured out it was 10 minute miles I was quite pleased. Oddly enough, my right shin started to hurt. I clearly need to work on my right leg so it keeps up with my, thanks to PT, new and improved left leg. I also managed to bike 15 miles yesterday. My quads are pretty well cashed at this point.

And that's about it. Peace.

Wow, I've improved

We skipped two days last week, because of illness. Did manage to run about 2 miles, and do some sit ups. While doing the sit ups, I hurt my tail bone. The zippered pocket on my shorts poked and chaffed me. Now i have this sore red spot on my tail bone and I've been trying to baby it so it heals quickly. So much for taking care not to hurt it because last night was another assessment.

I honestly have lost track of the number of weeks and days we've been doing this, but I don't think this assessment was evenly spaced. Anyway, I did improve over the last assessment we did. Here are the details

Sit ups: went from 25 to 27
Push ups: from 29 to 31
Mile run: from 8:08 to 8:00

Taking into account the fact that my ass actually hurt while doing the sit ups (and yes my tail bone is all jacked up again) I'm pleased that I beat it by two. I was also pleased with my form during the push ups; all 31 were high quality push ups. I took the first half of the mile rather easy because I didn't want to burn out so quick. I actually had a little too much left for my kick. Next time I'll push just a little more during the mile, so that my kick uses up every bit of energy I have. i should be able to break the eight minute mark, and who knows, I could dip well into the 7s.