Nooooo! I stopped to stretch it out a bit, and thought briefly of sticking through another couple of miles. However, as soon as I had that thought, I knew it was a bad idea, so I decided to just walk back to the car. As much as I wanted to keep going, I didn't want to keep running on the ankle when it was clearly not happy - especially if it was going to mess with my knee.

Was I bummed? Majorly. However, I had a nice walk back to the car, and it just felt good to get out there and get moving.

So! Since the run didn't work out so well, I headed into the gym to do some swimming. The pool at my new gym is pretty pimped out - it's on the 4th floor of the building, and it's got these huge floor-to-ceiling windows. Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day, so it was just absolutely gorgeous. Plus, there was no one else in the pool, which was even better. I haven't done any actual swimming in years, and it was nice to not feel like I was holding anyone up. They even had kickboards and those little leg floats there!

I started with 50m with the kickboard, just to make sure I remembered how to breathe and whatnot. Then I got into a groove of 25m freestyle followed by 25m backstroke. The backstroke was to give myself a chance to recover from getting water in my eyes and up my nose while still moving, and I think it worked out pretty well. I took a breather after every 50m, because, wow, swimming is hard work!

After about a half-hour, I called it quits. I was tired enough that I wasn't swimming in anything even resembling a straight line anymore, and my legs and arms were just feeling exhausted. I had been hoping to go for 45 minutes, but 30 was a good start.