Oops...should have been more patient

Well, I thought I was done with my recovery from the marathon…

I was itching to get out after basically taking last week off completely (I did one 30 minute swim), so I planned out a full off-season week for this week. This is still a pretty small workload (~5hrs), since the majority of the off-season I’ll be working somewhere on the range of 7-8hrs per week of training, hopefully). I also reintroduced lifting into my regimen to get that offseason strength boost. If all goes well I’ll be doing 30minute lifting circuits during lunch 3 days a week to cover each muscle group once a week (1x shoulder and arms, 1x chest and back, and 1x legs). Of course, abs/core will be included every lifting session. To get all the lifts in this small window of time, the workouts will be high intensity with super setting of almost everything. But I digress…

Back to being itching to get out, I took off Monday as a scheduling day and for running errands, so yesterday began my return to a regular schedule. I had a relatively steady and boring 30 minute swim mid-day (1.5km total workout), similar effort as usual for right now. In the evening though, I made my return to running. I planned to run approx. 40 minutes or so and had a route in mind with some hills. I took off and my legs felt great. I felt like I was floating, so I glided along at a pretty fast pace for me. By mile 2, reality set in, but my legs started to hurt a bit. This is unusual, and I just attributed it to fatigue. By the last mile of the 6 mile run, I was hurting pretty bad and knew the run itself, or the high intensity, or the hills, or some combination was a mistake. I covered the 6 miles (w/ rolling hills) in 43:15, so I was pushing a pretty good pace all the way to the end (~7:15s).

As soon as I stopped I had a stabbing pain in both hips…no good. I hobbled a cool down and headed inside. The pain didn’t subside all night, affecting me whenever I was on my feet. I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and almost fell over from the pain on the way. It was still a pretty sharp pain this morning. As I’ve moved around today, the pain has dulled some, but is still there when I’m walking. I looked it up and think it might be hip bursitis. So, I guess I wasn’t recovered yet from the marathon…oops.

I’m going to discuss it with my dad tonight (he’s a PT) and decide how to go from here. I’m pretty certain running is out for the rest of the week. I just hope I can get back on the bike before the end of the week, since I have really been eager to ride, even if it’s on the trainer. However, I did get my shoulder and arm lift in today. I had to hobble around the gym to get to the weights somewhat, but there was no pain when I was standing/sitting to accomplish my lifts since they were all upper body.

Anyways, moral of the story is BE PATIENT WITH YOUR RECOVERY TIME!