I'm working out, just not running

Oh, this blog and I. We have such a strange relationship. It's hard to blog about running when you're not running. I've been doing a lot of strength training, rollerblading and hiking, but I can't really record stats about that here nor do I care to.

Yesterday I made a connection as to what might be the problem with my legs. One leg I think was just strained or something because the pain is gone now--even when I use it. The other however is getting worse. I jogged about four steps from Blockbuster to my car the other day because it was raining and my leg throbbed for hours afterward. I was talking to my friend about it and as I was talking my apparently sometimes slow brain had an aha moment.

Many weeks ago,somewhere in the 4-6 range, I opened the back of my SUV and a post-hole digger started to slide out. I grabbed my daughter to pull her out of the way and the digger hit my ankle. I felt a tremendous force when it hit, but I really didn't think a whole lot of it. I limped around that evening and I had a pretty bruise around two cuts on my ankle, but cuts and bruises go away quickly with little fanfare. Hindsight is great, because now it's a big fat duh. That's when I started having problems with my leg and the pain is in the ankle where I got hit as well as on the other side where I felt the initial force from the hit.

I am going to make an appointment to be seen because I still haven't even though I said I was going to awhile ago. I don't think I really believed there was anything a doctor could tell me before, but now I'm sure about the cause. I just hope it isn't something too bad.