Ashley Conquers Wildwood

On Saturday Team Rash set out to conquer the WildWood Trail in Forest Park beginning at Mile 0 at the Portland zoo and ending at Newberry road 30.25 miles away. We dropped Ashley's vehicle off first and then both of us drove to the starting point. It was a gloomy cold day with intermittent monsoons! Everything was going great until near the halfway point we started running behind another runner which was a very comfortable pace and it was just fun to chase someone. Then all of a sudden on one of the descents my left foot/ankle or fankle began to really hurt! I didn't twist it or anything it just began to hurt and progressively get worse until I was reduced to walk. We were around 13 mile mark at this point and starting to get cold with the reduction of speed. I kept thinking of our race this Sunday and decided that it wasn't wise to go on if I want any chance of racing 31 miles in a week. So the original plan was for Ashley to haul a$$ to Newberry road 16 something miles away and come get me at the trailhead, but after waiting about 2 minutes in the frickin ice rain and being sweaty and soaked I decided to knock on the door of what appeared to be a friendly house no confederate flags or mean mutts so I knocked. A nice mom let me use her phone to call a cab...... an hour and a half later no cab and still raining I figured Ashley wouldn't be there for another hour and forty minutes so I ended up hitchhiking from another runner and his labrodoodle I think he felt sympathy for me I looked pretty bad at that point shoeless, shivering, covered in mud I mean covered, and holding a bag of ice that was given to me by the friendly neighbor.....So I got my jeep and drove to Ashelys Jeep and left her a note explaining the survival story the irony of it is I was only home 15minutes before her! The good thing is the 'ASH' part of Team RASH made it the whole Trail which is an awesome accomplishment and I am proud of her. I did some research on my freak injury and it is not so freak and lots of runners experience it I self diagnosed it as Peroneal Tendonitis It is the tendon that runs under the lateral malleolus I guess I don't know feels like a frickin snake bite, they recommend ice and rest which is easier said then done when your used to running 80 miles a week you cant just REST! So I have been lifting weights and punching the punching bag which helps I can only pray it is ok by Sunday.

Other good news is Brent is visiting us June 1st -4th we cant wait! He said he wanted to camp I said " well you have three options do you want a. ocean b. waterfalls or c. mountains" he picked a. so I think we are going back to Pacific City to find Moby in the bay!