I have been limping around all day! My ankle actually feels worse than it did yesterday. Everyone keeps on asking me about it. It's a little embarrassing saying that I twisted my ankle while getting off the bus.

I wonder if I am making it worse by my style of walking? What would happen if I tried to walk normally, as if it weren't injured? On second thoughts, limping is probably better. I should really not walk too much on it over the next few days.

I am so annoyed with myself. When I got off the bus today, I landed awkwardly on the footpath, and twisted my ankle. It felt fine shortly afterwards, but it seems to have gotten worse. It is annoying because I was planning on going for a run today - I will be too busy to go for a run tomorrow.

Hopefully, it would have recovered by Thursday. Perhaps, if I think about other things, I will forget about the ache, and it will go away quicker. Time will tell.

I have decided to start doing more long runs. The sort of run where you are not too concerned about how fast you go, rather, how much time you spend running. Dad told me about one of his training runs today, so I decided to try it out. It starts from our house, goes along Market Rd, down Pururi Dr, through the One Tree Hill Domain along Twin Oaks Dr to Manukau Rd. Then, it goes through Newmarket to the Domain. After running through the Domain to the hospital, you run to Khyber Pass, back to Newmarket and up the hill back home. It took me an hour and 15 minutes. I haven't measured it, but I am guessing that it is about 13 kms.

I ran it fairly slowly, because it was my first time on the run, and I was going out for time and not for speed. The run was good. It has set me up for some good training this week.