"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

Today is a sad day for my wife and her family they lost there Grandpa early this morning, he was a grand old man! He was 93 years old and it was hard to see him go, we will miss you Guss Black!

I ran the Payson Park loop, extended with the hills and I was having a hard time. My back was bothering me along with my left hip and then I was having stomach issues as well towards the end of the run! I barely made it home. I am not worried about my back because it comes and goes, but I am concerned about my hip. I can't figure it out, it feels like its a muscle problem, just from the standpoint that it didn't get any worse during the run and after a mile or so it loosened up and then it seemed to do fine. My average pace was 8:44 with my heart rate at 141, total time was 1:10:25, my legs were pretty dead for the start and I was disappointed with that considering that I had a reduced mileage week last week. I wish my legs would cooperate, oh well I am hoping for a better run tomorrow...

See you tomorrow.

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Well, my back feels great this morning but my hip does not! I was able to go about a half a mile and then I had to turn and walk back home... When is this ever going to happen for me? All that hard work through the winter, running in the snow and cold and now its all for not! Right now I don't know what my plan of action is, I came home and did about 10 minutes on the elliptical and then did my  standard lower body workout and core training, and it felt good doing the strength training, so I don't know what to think. It is more in the upper thigh rather than the hip, but running is out of the question I proved that today! The elliptical is so difficult for me to do, I just get way to bored. I will plan on taking tomorrow off just to see how it does, I was planning on starting training for SG on Monday and I have the 10 mile riverwoods race on Saturday, but that looks like that might not happen... What really ticks me off is I have been very careful about increasing my mileage, I have taken my time and tried not to over do it. I don't know,... I guess I will take a few more rest days and then re-evaluate and see where I'm at.. This SUCKS!!!!!! Did I mention this really SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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REST!

My upper leg and hip feel a little better today but that isn't saying a whole lot, I still don't feel like I could run on it! My brother-in-law is in town and he is a PT so I am going to have him work on me and then see how it goes. I am still planning on running the race on Saturday (Riverwoods 10 miler) if my leg continues to get better each day then I will try and run it,  but if it just kind of stays the same then I might have to drop out. I will probably do a test run on Friday to just see where I'm at and then make a decision based on how I feel after that:-)

"Like Sand Through the Hour Glass, So Are The day's Of Our Lives."

Somebody please help me!

Rest

I tried to run this morning tot test out my hip and leg, it felt better than Tuesday but still is painful. I ran the Payson Park loop but on did the small hills just to test it out, I felt okay going up hill but coming down hill was a little more painful. I will probably show up for the Riverwoods ten miler tomorrow and try and run it but I will just treat it like a training, there will be no PR tomorrow and then next week I will try and run every other day and then cross train with the elliptical until I can get it healed up. Michelle was heading back home and stopped and checked on me to see how I was doing, I guess she was doing some pool running it sounds like a bunch of us are falling apart! Well I am short on time, right now I have to go we are saying goodbye to Grandpa Guss this morning so I need to go and get ready.

Average pace was 9:02 with my heart rate at 136, total time was 54:32.

See ya tomorrow!

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Well, I awoke this morning with full intent of going and running the race but after trying to take a run around my house I realized it was not meant to be. My hip was very sore and I am limping, its seems I have a pulled my groin muscle to go along with everything else that is falling apart... I am going to be taking some time off and I will blog from time to time but I don't know how much, I am very disappointed and disillusioned, enough said! The only thing that seems to help with the pain is to walk, so I will be doing that and maybe the elliptical but that even seems to aggravate it so I will do that just a little...

See ya soon!