Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

Weird injury - my hip has actually been more sore on the side the past couple days so I didn't hold out much hope for today's TM run but it went ok.  At first I didn't feel it at all but the soreness crept in after a few minutes.  Now it really feels like a muscle or tendon and it's even a little tender to the touch for the first time; before, I could never touch the pain if that makes any sense.  So I don't know if it's just healing in different places or what, it's just weird.

But, I think it felt a little better than Friday...slow progress, but progress nonetheless.

Swam a mile in 26:30, kicking it in the last 200 or so.

Never thought I would be excited about a 1.5 mile TM run that took 14 minutes, but I am.  The hip was the best it has felt in a long time.  It also got better as the jog progressed instead of worse.  The left still felt different than the right so there is some healing left, but definite improvement this time.  Just some mild soreness afterward which now, an hour later, is gone.  I think I'll be running outside in a week or so.

I forgot my workout clothes today so couldn't go to the gym at work.  So when I got home I went ahead and did a TM run - a full 2 miles this time in about 19 min.  Toward the end I had a weird urge to just go 10mph as long as I could to make my lungs burn and feel some pain.  I resisted...  The run felt ok - about like yesterday, with my hip feeling better after a mile or so.  Then I remembered that that's sort of how it was when this injury started, except the pain was stabbing before and just dull/sore now.  That made me a bit nervous so I'll bike or swim Friday, take the weekend off, and my hip will have 3 full days off before I start up again.