Still running

I was going to write about our trip last week but I'm not able to get my photos to upload, so I'll try again tomorrow or Friday.  😊

Before we went on vacation my ankle started bothering me a lot.  It started on the arch of my foot, moved to the outside, and then settled in the inside of my ankle, although occasionally it still bothers me in the other two spots as well.  I talked about it in my last post, but I decided to only run one mile, and go back to my old shoes (I bought new ones, but didn't get them before my vacation).  While on vacation I decided to get a Ace bandage, and wrapped my ankle for the entire morning, including during my morning run.  It bothered me A LOT on vacation while I was running, but since I've been home I've been running on my treadmill, only one mile, with my new shoes (they finally came), while wrapped, and I've noticed it doesn't hurt nearly as bad.  At least not while I am not running.  (Yesterday it hurt more than it has this whole time during my run, but I think it was because I used a different wrap and wrapped too tight. Today it didn't hurt that much and I ran for almost 2 miles.)

The reason I ran 2 miles today?  Well, I didn't know my new Garmin would want to calibrate a treadmill run.  My last Garmin didn't do that, so when I was done with my first treadmill run with my new Garmin it asked to calibrate, and I didn't know what it was doing.  Well, I hit that I ran 2 miles instead of 1, and I couldn't get it to go back to 1 mile.  I thought, oh well, it can't be that big of a deal.  Well, then yesterday, my 1 mile run on the treadmill registered as only a half mile on my Garmin, so I looked up how to recalibrate it.  The answer was I had to run at least a mile and it would give me the option to calibrate again.  But because I had set it to register 1 mile as a half mile, I had to run 2 miles in order to get it to read 1 mile.  So today I decided even if I had to walk, I was going to go 2 miles so I could recalibrate it.  I actually ended up running less than 2 miles because I pumped my arm for a while because I was worried about my ankle.  

It worked out okay . . . so I'm happy to get it configured correctly, and it didn't bother my ankle more than my one mile runs have.  Which I'm very happy about.  I've now run 16 days of "only" one mile (well, other than today).  But I can say that my run streak is intact.  I am on day 658 days, which means I'm 73 days away from 2 years.