ankle issues

[coverallthebasses]

Has anyone had to deal with rolling/spraining/whatever an ankle during training for a race? I have really weak ankles (I had to quit high school track because of them) and I had something happen to at least one of my ankles before the 5K I ran in May and now the 10K I'm running in 2 weeks. I'm having a hard time balancing the need to keep my fitness up and not wanting to risk hurting it further. Does anyone have any ideas from previous experience with injuries during training?

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[coverallthebasses]

Thanks for your reply! I'm thinking I'm going to try and get out on my bike this week as well but what's really concerning me is that I actually have yet to run a full 10k and would like to have that under my belt by the end of this week. So I'm torn between wanting to push myself so I can at least do it once this week, and wanting to take it easy to make sure nothing bad happens. That's unfortunate about your tendency to get ill; I hate running with a cold/worse!