Back With a Capital Vengence!

Deshutes River Trail Lost in Bend Coffee Run.

And this is why they call it Bend...

Squats, planks, belly things, and other fun at PT. Adductors super tight, need to stretch daily! SI joint still in place - yay! No running today: 3 days on 1 day off may be a good plan from here on out.

Can't believe it is dark at 7:30 rarrrrrrrrrr! Almost headlamp season :(

PM: Easy run up the City Creek Trail. First day since the Wasatch/Peruvian combo my kneecaps didn't hurt.

PM2: Planks, side plank clam shell dealies, fire hydrants, rolling, and adductor and hip flexor stretches.

I went to an adventure film festival when I was in Bend last week and the films were mind blowingly inspiring. Most of the films can be viewed online at the 5Point Film Festival Site, but my personal fave is The Road From Karakol starring a Salt Lake City local. The first few minutes are priceless!

Work to home via the BST.

I started running this route several years ago so I thought it would be fun to look back at my times. Back in the summer of 2011, just before I started having my hip trouble and thought I was in the best shape of my life, I was running this in about 95 minutes. And well today I ran it in 77 minutes so I think I must be in decent shape now - yay!

Rest day.

Going to go for a baby run this afternoon and if I feel good I am going to regsiter for the Dugway Isolation Run happening tomorrow. I just can't resist another run through otherwise off-limits terrain and exploding land mines.

PM: Ha! I was dreaming this morning! 2.5 mile run up City Creek followed by a 1.5 mile limp of shame home. Bummer.

Here's the deal:

• Right hip pain (non-op side) in the front/side - not groin pain or bursitis, TFL possibly?
• Onset of sharp pain last Thursday. SI joint had been out for weeks prior so the only pain I had been having was right lower back and glute. Thought new pain was related to brutal SI adjustment at PT last Wednesday, but hasn't gone away.
• Pain is sharp on impact during walking or running. Nearly non-existent on uphills, but borderline excrutiating on downhills. No discomfort with sitting, only with impact.
• Adductor and piriformis are very tight and I have been stretching and rolling twice a day.
• I have positive impingement signs in the right hip, but good internal rotation so my PT doesn't think it is an FAI flare-up (yes, I have FAI in the right hip too)

The Plan:

• I have made appointments with both my sports med doc and hip surgeon and I am getting a massage this Sunday and a gait analysis next week and I just opened a bottle of wine (Thanks Allie :)
• No running until no pain with walking. Find cross-training that doesn't hurt.
• Keep up PT exercises since none of them seem to be aggrevating the problem.
• Ice, ice, ice and roll and stretch a ton!
• Do not freak out! Trust that this is going to go away soon and you are not going to have to have another hip surgery so help me ughhhh! Be happy with those few months of running you had :)

Any ideas on what the cause of this pain is? I think it has to be related to some sort of pelvic instability related to my SI joint dysfunction on the right side. I am 8 months out of surgery on the left hip and would say I am at about 95% - only problem is the occasional hip flexor tightness but whoopie do. Please, please don't be FAI issues!!!!!!!!

Can't put much weight on the right leg this morning without a whole lot of pain. Not really sure what I should do or what is going on with it, but I am going to stay off it as much as possible. Got my crutches out of the closet. Seriously?

It was a good thing I wasn't running the Dugway race because I wouldn't have been able to get out of my driveway this morning anyway. The apartment building across the street from me went up in flames, we are talking serious flames! One of the scarriest things I have ever seen, I could feel the heat in my living room. Just glad no one was hurt.