Wed 5/6 - PM 65+ minutes very easy

laps around the BC reservoir, from glacial to simply slow over time. The pattern is familiar, incredibly stiff hip to start, most pain on the TFL, gradually shifts to the adductor over time and decreases in intensity. However, since Saturday's debacle overall mobility in the joint has decreased and morning pain and stiffness have remained steadfastly intolerable. The downward spiral is unmistakable to be sure. I'll be stopping soon, possibly tomorrow, still the matter of running with the kids Sat. morning though. Despite all the hobbling, it was pleasant enough being out and about after the sun broke through the morning clouds.

Tue 5/5 - off

yet another 13 hour day thanks to HS track meet. Hip felt like garbage most all of the day, so many things going on in the area and none of them good. Especially stiff after sitting down for any length of time.

Mon 5/4 - PM 50 minutes very easy

Brookline/Boston, Coolidge Corner to the Muddy River. A dreary exercise in pain tolerance everything in and around the right hip sore, inflamed, and progressively more torqued up. I may well give up this charade sooner rather than later but we'll see.

Sun 5/3 - PM 80 minutes very easy

Area 51. A hobbling mess pretty much the entire time, yesterday's PM shakeout didn't prevent the inevitable overnight inflammation and stiffening as I had hoped it might. Within the context of the past two weeks, the feeling was quite familiar unlike yesterday morning's unexpected spryness. As ever it felt a bit better as things went along but never anything to write home about. Felt best afterwards, same familiar pattern. And so it goes. Vaguely sticky and overcast but not especially warm all day.

Sat 5/2 - double, 90 minutes total incl 4x1000

AM - 60 minutes incl. 4x1000 w/1 minute recovery. Last-minute decision to even attempt anything on the track, as recently as yesterday afternoon I never would have thought it possible but the right hip felt better than it has on any morning the past few weeks. While possible, working out was still not advisable as the discomfort level grew after each repeat until I had to stop 150m into rep #5. The pace wasn't the issue, as it was 80 sec/lap, but the effort it took to run this pace while dragging my right leg along for the ride became too much. The real fun started after this as various muscles in the affected area seized up while I was walking back and I literally couldn't move w/o debilitating pain. I ended up prone on the side of the track. In addition to the usual suspects, TFL was heavily involved. Adduction and flexion movements were so acutely painful as to be impossible. The process of regaining mobility took over half an hour and included every trick in the book. Yet I was eventually able to jog 25 superslow minutes and stretch. The acute nature of these flareups this week when I attempt to run faster than a jog have gone past frustrating and are now just bizarrely intriguing. No longer sticking to a workout schedule for any other reason than the local yokel 5k in Stow, which I'll lose anyway if anyone worth a damn decides to show up.

PM - 30 minutes very very easy on Weston HS fields and trails followed by a good stretch. No discernible cardiovascular benefit to this run, simply a matter of maintaining some range of motion in the swollen and aggravated hip so I can get out of bed tomorrow morning.

Fri 5/1 - PM 75 minutes very easy/easy

Slow trudge around Area 51 with a few breaks interspersed. About what I expected in terms of the hip being sore and inflamed, although it wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be after feeling like holy hell all day at work. Warm day with gusty winds.