The Next Step

I went out for a 20 mile bike ride today.  The hip felt good riding and didn't cause me any problems.  It was very hot (89) and humid with light wind.  Kept a pretty decent pace and felt good to get something in.

I got early this morning and got it a short run.  It was warm (74) and had some light rain.  I felt good and ran easy.  The hip seemed to be ok.  I found a stretch last night that isolated the muscle that has been giving me problems.  That really seemed to help.  I am really hoping that this week I can get back to full time running.  I was able to pick up the pace today some as I ran and it felt good to run a little faster.

38:33 (7:43 avg)

Went for a 20 mile back ride later in the morning.  I still felt good and had a pretty good pace.  I am starting to feel like I am getting close to getting over this problem but I still some pain and need to keep up with the stretching, etc.

We had some thunderstorms roll through today so I ran inside on the TM.  I felt good and didn't have much problem with the hip.  It tightened up for a couple of minutes early on but then was good the rest of the time.  I am going to try to run the rest of the week and see how it goes.  Still stretching a lot and hoping that I can transition back to full time running and get my mileage up.  I feel like I am sliding backwards right now.

39:08 (7:50 avg)

It was a beautiful morning today.  It was warm (74) but didn't seem very humid and a light breeze.  I had planned on running yesterday but it was storming in the morning and I thought I would wait and run outside later but got really busy with work and the day got away from me.  Anyway, today was pretty much the same as the the couple of weeks.  I have been babying my hip but doesn't seem to be getting much better but luckily not getting any worse.  I am not sure what it is going to take to get over this thing.  It is not causing me pain but always tightens up a couple of times during a run and I am just afraid to kick it back into normal training because it might get worse.  Not sure what to do at this point.  I guess I will continue to get into normal running routine and see what happens.

47:42 (7:57 avg)

It was warm and humid this morning.  Just did another easy run as I try to get back to normal running without any hip pain.  I started off real easy to get warmed up.  This is something that I didn't do real well in the past and I am trying to do a better job of easing into the run to make sure my muscles are good and loose.  As I went along I felt pretty good.  I picked up the pace to around 7:30 and felt good.  I had one little section where the hip tightened up but not bad.  Overall this was my best run in awhile.  I think the stretching is paying off. 

47:38  (7:57 avg)