When I told Josse how thrashed my legs were yesterday, she said "you used different muscles trail running, so you should be fine by Saturday" (Utah Valley Marathon). Ha! But I took that thought to heart as I eeked my way down the stairs today. Yesterday Sasha and Sarah dropped by to say hi and when I told Sasha how much I hurt and where, he pointed to hipflexors. So I tried to massage and stretch my hipflexors (which felt like hard rope), glutes, and IT band. WOW is all I can say. I may have used 'different' muscles getting up and down that mountain, but I am SORE--mostly those hips, IT band and the outside of my quads and lower, inner quad above my knees. So when I got to the trail, I gingerly tried running and hobbled for about 100 feet. It took .4 miles to warm up. When I stopped to say hi to Marsha about 2 miles in, I could hardley get going again once I'd stopped. I am toast man, and I'm still in shock over how hard and scary running up and down a mountain is. I made up like 7 new swear words that day. | 