thud

This running year ended with a resounding thud.  I had been experiencing a strange pain down below my left ankle as if I had rolled it or had some trauma to it for about 10 days or so.  At work last Friday afternoon I began flexing it and rolling it around and after a while realized it was hurting bigtime.  By the time I left work I could only walk with a pronounced limp.  It hurt!!  The pain started below my ankle and ran up my leg not quite to my calf.  Well, I had my last long run scheduled for the next day  The weather forecast was beautiful and I was looking forward to a good long run.  When I left work I called Shan and left her a message telling her what was going on and to see what her advice might be.  She called me later saying she thought it was my achilles flairing up.  Wow, I never expected that.  Her advice was to not run and take a bunch of vitamin I and ice a lot.  Well so much for a good positive ending to this running year.  On a positive note the Ibuprofen and ice really seem to have done the trick.  Thursday evening after work I went on my first easy test run on the trails in Pease Park.  I had a good 5 miler and mixed in plenty of walking.  That afternoon I sort of felt like I might be getting sick but thought a little fresh air would help.  NOT.  I woke up Friday morning feeling terrible.  I mostly had body aches but felt just terrible.  Now wasn't this just crazy.  I get the achilles under control and am 8 days out from the Bandera 100k and now I'm frickin sick!!  Well here I am early Sunday morning and am feeling much better.  A little hungover from the meds I've taken but definitely feeling better. I need to do a bunch of stretching and working out the kinks after doing nothing but lay around the last 2 days but now I think I can look forward to the race!!