The Next Step

I took the last two days off to try to recover from the aches and pains I have been having lately.  It was a great morning today and I decided I should also spend more time warming up and getting the muscles loose.  I started off real slow (around 9:30 pace) for the first half mile and then started gradually picking it up to normal pace.  I'm not sure if this helped or the rest but my achilles didn't bother me at all.  However, after about 4 miles my hip started to bother me and did for the rest of the run.  I will keep up the stretching, ice, etc and see if I can get these behind me.  I also think it might be good to cut down on the speedwork until I get over these.  Overall, today was a positive step just hope it keeps going in the same direction.

63:58 (8:00 avg) 

It was cool this morning (37) but no wind.  I started the same as yesterday just going real slow for the first 1/2 mile.  I didn't have any issues with the achilles for the second day in a row so that is a good sign.  After about 4 miles my hip started bothering me again.  It was off and on for the rest of the run.  I will keep working on the stretches and strengthing to see if I can get it straightened out and keep the achilles ok.  Trying to get it back together without having to take a lot of time off.  We will see how it works.

 65:02 (8:07 avg) 

My daughter had an early morning Veterans Day program that I went to so missed my normal morning run then the day got away from me.  Busy day at work then a lot to do around the house.

Nice morning (39).  I felt sluggish this morning getting out of bed and getting going.  Started off easy again today but had some issues with the achilles starting out.  It wasn't too bad and got better after a mile.  The hip was better today and didn't really bother me until about 5 miles and it was off an on.  Trying to be patient and work through these issues.  Hopefully, I am making some progress.

70:53 (7:53 avg) 

I worked at my daughter's school this morning so got out later in the afternoon.  It was a beautiful day for running with temps in the mid 60's.  That was the highlight for today.  The run part didn't go very good.  The achilles was bad again today and my hip started hurting around 4 miles.  I just came back to the house after that and shut it down. I am going to have to take a step back and really figure out what to do about these injuries.  They are not getting any better and my training is not very good.  I am wondering if I should just take some time off and get better then go back after it.  I really want to have a good year next year and have some big goals but I know that I will not accomplish them if I can't get better and train right.  I need to do some thinking and decide my next steps.  Any thoughts?

40:29 (8:06 avg)