I wore shoes to give my ankle a little support. It's still tender. It didn't bother me running, but I think I'll take tomorrow off to be on the safe side.
My body's not doing so great. I woke up with a mild crick in my neck and a pain in my left hamstring. Once I started running, I realized my right ankle was bothering me, too. Finally, the ball of my left foot doesn't hurt or bother me, but it still feels slightly different than the right foot. I think I'll try to cross-train tomorrow.
I ran on the artificial practice field both Friday and Saturday. It wasn't easy! On Friday, I looked up on the athletic department website what time the field was listed as "open recreation". I went during that time, but it was closed, locked, and vacant. I went in the gym, where the person at the desk tried to tell me that I couldn't run on the field during "open recreation". That just meant that I could reserve the field if I had an entire club that wanted to use it. As I began to indicate that I didn't believe this was a very viable interpretation of the term "open recreation", I was referred to an office. In the office, the person I talked to apologized for having the field locked, but expressed surprise because "no one had ever really wanted to use it during this time before." So they sent someone out to unlock it, but he didn't have a key. At this time it started to rain, so I stood around in the rain waiting for him to walk all the way back, and someone else to come with a key. It was finally unlocked - all so I could run half an hour barefoot in the rain.
From the apartment, I found a mostly-grassy out-and-back that takes just about half an hour. Nothing equivalent to an arroyo tempo loop, though.
I figured out that there's a pretty grassy path from my house up the median on Charles street to the baseball field, and I also successfully had my first time getting kicked off the baseball field by a self-righteous bitch who did not even want to run on it herself; she only wanted to use it to stand around in a polo shirt holding a clipboard.
Snuck onto the baseball field. I'm not sure how serious they are about not letting anyone use it, but no one bothered me for half an hour, at least.
Did the usual run around the neighborhood. This was pretty disappointing, because I wasn't really expecting to do a run today so much as a canoe trip. Thanks for the letdown, Irene. Worst. Disaster. Ever.
On Thursday, someone broke into my parents' car (which I was using) to steal the GPS. I found out when I was leaving school, and spent the rest of the day dealing with it. That set me behind for studying for my prelim on Saturday, so Friday I spent all day freaking out and trying to figure out all of EM. Then, Saturday, I took the anticlimactic test (it was pretty easy), but then didn't run because there was a hurricane.
I felt really drained today after dealing with administrative things at school. I also got so wrapped up in them that I didn't eat lunch and was pretty depleted by running time. Consequently, I just tried to get through this run. I took my now-typical route from my parents' house.
I took today off, except for walking through sketchy sections of Baltimore because I was carpooling into the city with my dad, then the bus wouldn't stop for me.
