Sunday I decided to blow off my run because of Martin Luther King. His amazing life gave us many things including a day off. So I decided to give my legs one more day of rest and put in a long run on Monday.
Friday night's power lifting session put a lot more stress on my body than I could have imagined and my hip flexor muscles were still somewhat sore- more on this in a bit.
Instead, I decided to do a chest workout. It was a good workout, not much to write about though.
Monday morning, I got up to run at 7 and there was something missing, the sound of wind. Was I going to get a windless morning of running? Sure looked like it.
I took off and headed east towards Hunters Ridge with the intent of breaking up the 2 mile climb to the power line trail into segments. It worked well, except, as I climbed up the hill the wind started to turn from a slight breeze to what one would call a wind, at least I was calling it that as I cursed it.
About 4 miles into this run, I was starting to notice that my right hip flexor wasn't acting right. It hurt a bit, but that pain was being overridden by the blisters in both of my arches. Think about it, when you tickle someones feet, you tickle the arches because that is the most sensitive part of your foot. Now imagine having blisters there and having them be rubbed by a hard orthodic insert over and over and over and over. I can not wait until the callous builds up enough so that I don't have to deal with this anymore.
6 miles into this run is a very steep hill and I can usually run the entire thing, but on this run, I had to stop down and fast walk it. This hill is so steep that my heart rat stayed at 184 bpm while walking.
I noticed at this point that things weren't good with that hip flexor and it was effecting my endurance. However, I am in the middle of now where and so I have no choice but to run the rest of the run home. One thing that is helping is that it is a beautiful day. When I get to the top of the trail you can see all the entire valley and it was breathtaking. It was totally clear, which usually happens when it is windy outside. Oh yeah, the wind, as I climbed up towards the base of the foothills into the mouth of the canyon, the wind was blowing pretty hard. Not howling like last weekend, but certainly annoying and adding to the effort that I was having to put out on this run.
So, I get home after about 10.5 miles. I held a good pace but last night the pain started to really flare up in my right hip flexor. This morning I woke up in real pain. So now the question, is this an injury or not? I am going to rest it tonight, ice it down, and see if I can get it to go away. Let's hope.
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