Not So Hip

I like to try to write my posts with a pretty positive tone. This post, however, not so much.

On Wednesday I headed out for my run in the pouring rain. I was actually kind of excited to have my first rainy run of the season. At about mile 6.5 of 8 miles I started to feel a weird pressure sensation in my lower left leg. It went away for about a minute or two and came back with about a mile to go and stayed. It was really uncomfortable and kind of intense. I have never felt a pressure like this. So I finished the run and decided to see how the next few days went.

The next morning I decided to switch my runs around and do my easy run first and tempo run second due to a much later than planned bed time. I ran an easy four miles and felt nothing. GREAT! It was just some freak pain. Then, I started my warm up for my tempo and had the same pressure feeling but this time in the right leg and accompanied by some sharp shooting pain. It stayed for a few steps then went away. GREAT! again. Things really plummeted when I started my tempo and got MAYBE 10 steps in and had searing pain in my lower leg. I was doing my tempo on the treadmill at work between clients (all the local tracks were locked). Out of instinct, I didn't land normally to avoid the crazy pains. This did not workout well on a treadmill and I pulled/strained/aggravated/did something to my right hip. It hurt the rest of the day and hurt about a 7 of 10 on Friday just to walk. I called Coach Dad and was told no run Friday and no run Saturday.  Not the words you want to hear on the weekend of your last 23 miler with only 3 weeks left until race day. So I did as ordered and did no run but swam 2000yds this morning to keep the cardio up and maintain my sanity.

Today (Saturday), I have been feeling more tightness than pain in the hip and am able to walk normal without/minimal pain. Certain movements still bother it more than others but overall I would say it's down to about a 2 or 3 of 10 on the pain scale. So tomorrow I will "attempt" my 23 miler but will proceed with caution!

WISH ME LUCK!