Today was supposed to be day 1 of my 30 day challenge to establish a strength training routine to my life.  Thirty minutes before my first workout I rolled my ankle.  I was carrying some boxes and my backpack with my laptop and a bunch of work in it, which was slung over one arm,  to my car.  My car was parked next to a curb and as I leaned over to put the boxes in the car my backpack shifted and caused me to take a step to correct my balance.  Unfortunately, I stepped off the edge of the curb and landed on the outside of my foot.

The twisted foot is certainly painful and I will not be able to put much pressure on it for a couple of days, the good news is that I don’t think it is twisted nearly as bad as it could have been.  I’ve had some nasty sprains in my day and my ankles are pitifully weak. Stepping off a curb with about 40 lbs of loose weight swinging in my backpack could have been enough to put me on crutches.  However, I have been wearing my Vibram Five Fingers nearly every day for about a month and I believe it spared me from a true sprain.  I’m able to limp on my ankle without to much pain.  If I take it easy for the next two days, I hope that on Wednesday I’ll be able to start out with the workout I had planned for today.