Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet View Post
Ask your doc when you can start riding again.

Use your pedal wrench (every woman should have one, and know how to use it!) to put platforms on your bike once you can start riding again, and use them until you have better lateral stability.
Yep. Ask your doc, but I think I was off for a week or two, IIRC. Took me 5.5 weeks to get back to running--and that was very few miles, very slowly, rebuilding my weekly mileage very gradually. I think it's been about 12 weeks since my sprain. My ankle is still far from healed, but I think that's in large part to how poorly I treated my ankle in the first couple of days. Continuing to run nearly 10 miles on trails after the initial grade 2 sprain was not wise and if it happened again I would likely not continue. I still can't run at all on uneven surfaces (like grass or the gravel shoulder) without discomfort and my range-of-motion is pretty restricted compared to my other ankle.