I just got home from Kona and I am walking around my house and it sounds like I have water balloons in my feet. I have no ankles as well. Some of my friends say that they had a similar look after sitting down for 3 hours at the awards banquet. Do any of you experience this kind of thing after a race/traveling? My first time…weird.
Will I lose 5 lbs out of my legs by tomorrow?
What’s a cankle? 
-C
Some dependent edema is not uncommon a day or two after an ultra sort of event. It should get better with rest & elevation. If it’s markedly different on one side, is associated with shortness of breath or doesn’t get better in a day or two, go see your doctor.
calf + ankle = cankle…swollen feet/ankles so it looks like 1 with no streamline.
This only happened to me 1 time after a REALLY bad sunburn. Never after a race though.
When your calf goes straight into your foot with no discernible “dainty slimming” of the ankle.
Calf - Ankel = Cankle.
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thought that “cankel” was a common term. I wonder if the I.V. after the race had anything to do with the ankel/foot/calf swelling.
I had noticeable swelling in the ankles after IMFL last year. It went away after a day or two.
I’ve never done an IM, but I’m wondering if you overhydrated. Anyone else get this.
What’s a cankle?
-C
That was a new term to me, too, until someone came back from China with the first two seasons of Nip/Tuck on bootleg DVD for like five bucks. One of the patients wanted her cankles fixed. Turned out it was only one of her personalities that wanted the operation, though. Another one wanted a breast reduction.
Word: **cankle **
Part of Speech: n.
Definition: The word used to describe when one has a calf to ankle ratio of 1:1; very large calves connected to chubby ankles.
Synonym: Thankle; also known as the thick ankle or thigh to ankle ratio without deviation nor definition.
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I go from pretty ripped looking after a long ride where I sweat alot to being damn near cankled 8 hours later of sitting at a deskjob. These suckers are miracle workers!
Sitting on your butt for 5 hours to the Westcoast is probably the biggest factor in the edema. Living in the Islands, most of my over 40 year old transplanted friends, my wife and I are all using some sort of support hose on mainland flights. Dr. Lennards makes some of the best for less and they look like kneehigh black dress socks.
Being over hydrated prior to a long flight is probably a good thing as you lose a fair amount of moisture in the air. The really shitty news that no one tells you about air travel is the radiation exposure hit you take for 5 hours at 35k feet. Not sure why more medical info isn’t out there for the early pregnant moms. In the hospital we avoid xray exposure like the plague around the prego moms, and in the friendly skys they don’t even mention it.
I didn’t notice the edema until after 40 years old, so I am sure old legs do worse than young ones. It has been recommended that you get up every hour or so and walk in flight and I have read in some airline booklets about doing ankle rolls and flex/point the feet drills while seated .
after flying to Korea (15 hours) once I got off the plane and my feet couldn’t fit into my slip-on nike sandals. So…it has to do with travel, too.
Ditto what G-man said. DVT socks keep the swelling down to a minimum but hydrating, moving and stratching your legs all contribute to reducing the effect. Also, search the posts about DVT socks as there were some very good suggestions in there on what socks to get, the surgical ones are considerably better than the over the counter ones for not much more buck.
is that a screen shot from “Shallow Hal”?