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[willgotthardt]

Oct '07, three (3) page thread, notes rehab/healing progress.

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Sorry to meet you in that condition, be as aggressive as you can with it, you'll get back. Best of luck.

Cheers, Will G.

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Some Fugly pictures there Will!

My wife worked the Gazos Creek Station and said a gal was driven out by her husband just as Raul arrived. She'd spent about 45 minutes with an ice bag on her ankle.

Raul's ankle was reportedly pretty nasty. By description it sounded like a possible grade 3 sprain, maybe even a fracture. My wife drove him to the finish line where he painfully limped around, but was otherwise in excellant spirits. Besides not getting to finish, his greatest concern was his wife waiting at the finish line.

His wife is a person of sound mind. She thinks running ultras through the hills isn't the wisest of avocations, as opposed to all of us who are obviously deranged. ;D Per Raul, she also apparently has extra sensory perception. He told my wife that his wife had a premonition of his downfall and pleaded with him not to run. So, the ankle wasn't bothering poor old Raul as much as the fear of his wife's reaction (I've been in that spot before!!!).

I know of two other ankle sprains in the race. I rolled mine severely near the start of the race, and at least two grown men screamed at the sight (they felt my pain!). It slowed me a mite, but I ran through it, as did a guy I was running with who rolled his ankle around mile 5. I later saw him finish.

This morning I finally noticed the ankle didn't feel quite right (until then, everything else hurt so bad, I couldn't recognize the symptoms) and took off a compression like sock to see it swollen, discolored and fugly. It's only a mile sprain, but I wonder about the guy that turned his ankle at mile 5. Is he Fugly today too?

That's 4 fugly ankles in the race that I know about. How many fugly ankles were there? Let's take a poll! Considering the number of fugly ankle's I know about, and the number of people I talked to, there must have been a few dozen fugly experiences at STTS this weekend.

Anyone who rolled there ankle at STTS, tell us about it along with the severity of the aftermath. Federal law demands you must comply with this census!

[hjwolters]

I sprained my ankle last year at Sequioa (it was between a 2 to 3 sprain) and I have to say that Will's reports were encouraging and also helpful to gauge progress. Thanks again Will for taking the time to document your rehab, it was a morale booster.

Hans

Apr 19, 2010 13:12:33 GMT -5 willgotthardt said:

Oct '07, three (3) page thread, notes rehab/healing progress.

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Sorry to meet you in that condition, be as aggressive as you can with it, you'll get back. Best of luck.

Cheers, Will G.

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My foot and ankle now look somewhere between Will's fugly series 1 and fugly series 2 pictures . Way pudgy and discolored too. I feel really studly (i.e. stupid? : for having run 25 miles after this happened.

I know there have to be more ankle stories out there. Where are they guys and gals?

[kent]

Apr 19, 2010 21:22:59 GMT -5 @G said:

Some Fugly pictures there Will!

My wife worked the Gazos Creek Station and said a gal was driven out by her husband just as Raul arrived. She'd spent about 45 minutes with an ice bag on her ankle.

That wasn't her husband, rather, a good friend - me. One of the other runners came into aid station and said that she had hurt her ankle so I headed up the trail to meet her, not realizing she had met up with a park ranger that gave her a ride back to the aid station. So unfortunately she had to wait for me until I made my way back to the aid station when I couldn't find her on the trail. Turns out she fractured her ankle.

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Wow! a fracture! Let us know how she's doing and ask her to post her epic tale (i.e. how did it happen? ).

She should get a special purple heart ribbon. Injured in combat!

Did you see any other carnage Kent? Aid station folks told me they saw a lot of blood shed.

This was a fast course, but it wasn't easy fast. I'm just totally amazed at Leor Pantilat flying over, under and through 30 + miles of obstacles averaging about 6:43/mile. He must not touch ground, which is seemingly the safest way to run it.