Reinjured?

Ran on the 24th. Walked 5 minutes warm-up. Ran 10 minutes, walked 1 minute, repeated. Total of 35 minutes including the warm-up. And I hurt. I still hurt. I think I reinjured my left hip. Was it ever really healed? I thought it was. Dang!

It's been 5 days and it still hurts but a lot less initially. Maybe just hip flexor strains? That's what I though I had done before, pulled my hip flexors. Nope. I had my son do one of the tests the doctor did (the one that hurt so bad) when I first injured my hip and I didn't feel any pain but I am so paranoid about a reinjury. I don't know what to do. I'm not walking pain-free yet. I don't dare run.

I am persistant. I am patient. I am stubborn! I will run again.

Running After Recovering from an Injury

It's been 9 weeks. Nine weeks. 9 entire weeks - that's 63 days. And I am finally running again. I was supposed to go back to the orthopedic surgeon two weeks ago. I postposed my appointment until tomorrow because I was still not 100% pain-free. The end game is to be able to run again and two weeks ago I was sore after the recumbant bike. I'm not sore anymore.

So I took it very easy - until December 19th - exactly 2 months to the day. Then I ran. I ran on the 19th. It was awesome. I smiled as I ran. After a mile and a half warm-up, I was flying. Tight hip flexors, a little pain on the greater trochantor area and both went away by the next day. I ran again on the 21st. Awesome! No tightness, same wonderful feeling. A bit of pain in my feet but I'm running again!

Now, I walked 5 minutes as a warm-up. After each mile I walked for a minute. And during my period of forced inactivity, I did work to strengthen my core. So maybe it's paying off. I was sore today, all over. But I didn't even sense a hint of anything wrong in my femoral neck area.

I'm still going to the doctors tomorrow and I may just ask for a physical therapy session so I can get some advice on how to prevent hip injury and ITB pain. I also need to find a good recovery running plan. Maybe this one?