Chantry Ride and Ankle Sprain

Yes! I did 29.5 minutes up Chantry today, the fastest since my horse fall. I discovered that before I was slow because I was on heavier gears and they were often too heavy that my cadence was low. Now I have my gears on easy and I can maintain a high cadence. I'm pretty happy because my time had remained stagnant at 30.5min for quite some time. At the gates of Chantry as I was starting the ascent, I was going uphill and was taking too long to clip in and no surprise I fell off my bike. I landed on my back (or on my ankle) and sprained my ankle. My back didn't hurt - I think it was protected by the bunch of accessories that I keep in my cycling jersey back pockets. I got up and began the Chantry ride with no pain anywhere. However, when I got to work, I felt something wrong with my ankle, so I tried to move it around. And after that, the pain became progressively worse :(

Being the ever health conscious person that I am, I went to the health center. The nurse said that it's a sprain. She put on ointments to relieve the pain, wrapped me in compression dressing, gave me an ice pack along with plenty of caring advice. The nurses there always take great care of me and they certainly go beyond their job in doing so - but I like to be taken care of :) It amazes me how there are people in the world who are so caring and considerate yet others who are the exact opposite.....I hope my ankle will be ok for the ride this Thursday!!