Sat 3/19 - AM 60 minutes incl. 8k tempo

Longfellow loop. Terrible effort, sabotaged by left leg/hip back. Adductor and glute medius attachment felt like shit from the very start and instead of loosening up in any way, they simply got worse as the thing wore on. Had planned on doing 4 laps starting at close to 6:00 pace and seeing if it could go down a bit from there, instead the first loop went at that pace and then slowed on the second lap. Gave up for all intents and purposes at 6k but kept going for no good reason. Hard to describe how crappy the leg felt. Simply put, any kind of faster running right now, "faster" meaning anything more than say 6:30 pace or so, results in failure and further aggravation of this neverending bullshit with the left side. I'm at a loss to understand how sensitive it is, esp. after how good it felt at the tail end of the Tucson trip where I was going up and down mountains every day and running barefoot strides and drills most evenings. Since the flight back and the road race last weekend it's been nothing but shit. Extremely extremely frustrating, particularly in light of the hour plus I'm spending every goddamn evening massaging, stretching, strengthening, etc. Must be doing either the wrong things or not enough of the right things. To cap things off, underneath the leg issues it felt like I was quite flat and lacking in energy. The three hour nap after lunch would back that up. Still quite windy, but it's shifted to colder direction making for less than comfortable conditions unlike yesterday.