What's up, Motivators, Taryn here. Riding Solo this week. N.T.K. has gone back home to Winnipeg,

so you just get me. Sorry about that. Anyway, getting into some updates here, I have an

unfortunate update that I'm sure you are all just heartbroken about, but it does actually

get to me a little bit, I think, at least for the foreseeable

future of the next several months, I think my running career might be over.

What happened was about three weeks ago now.

I rolled my ankle at the golf course.

There was a irrigation cover that was set about four inches below the surface of most of the grass, so I didn't notice it.

I rolled my ankle, and on my right ankle, I have always had some issues there.

As a kid, I skateboarded, and I rolled that ankle so many times, had to go into the hospital twice to

take a look and see if it was broken.

And I never had a lot of dorsiflection.

So I was never able to bring my toes up very far towards my knees.

So what would happen is my ankle would just stop moving and I wouldn't be

able to load onto my Achilles, which is what you want. You want to be able to load onto your

Achilles and to your calf and roll forward, rolling forward with your knee more so past your toes allows you to do that. Well, my ankle

would lock every single foot strike very early on and it would place a ton of pressure onto the

top of my foot, which I managed over the course of years just by strengthening my feet and

constantly putting my feet onto a roly ball and then really knuckling into the top of

my foot to work everything out. And that's how I managed it during all of my heavy training.

And all of those ankle limitations still exist. But this ankle roll that happened a few weeks

ago have really ramped up how much

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