I went and saw the Doctor last Wednesday, as my injury was not getting any better with rest, I was also having trouble sleeping because of the pain. I was diagnosed with a hip flexor strain. They also gave me an x-ray and that came back negative, so that’s good. Thus, I was wrong in thinking it was my IT Band.

One thing that I realized about this type of injury is that it’s not something you can train through. I often take that approach with minor injuries, like a sore IT-band, et al. The true pain happened after the half marathon, however it was bothering me two weeks prior. At one point, I even took five days off thinking it would get better. It improved, but it wasn’t completely healed, thus when I started running again I simply reaggrevated it and went back to square one.

I was pretty bummed out because from Sunday-Saturday, I felt like I had little to no improvement. It hurt getting in and out of the car and I was still walking with a limp. Sunday was a whole new day, it was weird and I was no longer limping, but still sore. Sunday I also started biking, so hopefully I don’t loose too much fitness. I tried to do some core work as well and to give you an idea of the pain, on Monday I was lying on the floor trying to do some simple leg exercises and I couldn’t even lift my right leg off the ground to do the exercise. Today though I was able to do that exercise, thus the road to recovery is a long one.

I’m still undecided about the Lincoln Marathon. My guess is that I will not run it, but I will think about it if I can get back to running by Monday. I won’t run unless I am 100%, it would be foolish to run poor race, reagravate my injury and screw up my summer racing plans.

The bummer is I have put in all the hard work for the marathon, I was one week from my taper when I get hit with the big injury. I tell ya, I turn 30 back on 3/11 and everything just falls apart! What happened to the good old days of high school CC when the only thing you had to worry about were sore muscles!