Injury rears its ugly head. AGAIN.

I did a nice 5 miler with my friends from the racing team last Wednesday. We decided to keep meeting through the winter, using our own version of the workout schedule. Since continuing through the winter makes us feel hard core, we dubbed ourselves the Wednesday Warriors.

Friday I did 5K on the treadmill, as per usual.

I had originally intended to only do 5 miles or so this weekend, along with a bike ride. But because both weather and ridiculous bike rental rates mixed the bike ride idea, I decided to go for ten miles again. I got pretty tired near the end, and decided to quit once I knew I was near my race distance of 9.3 miles. When I got home, I mapped my route and discovered I had done about 9.67 miles at a 9:40 pace. No wonder I was tired, right?

I felt fine the rest of that day and most of the day Sunday, but then Sunday night my right hip started to hurt. Not constantly, and not really in response to movement or weight bearing, but every once and a while it would start to ache deep down in the joint, then it would fade in 10 minutes or so.

This made me so mad I could hardly function. It was not limiting my mobility, nor was the pain all that bad. But the location of it made me think it might be a bone thing rather than a muscle thing, meaning I should really not run on it. I couldn't believe another injury was going to mess up my last race of the season.

I got up Monday and there was no pain, so I did a 5K outside. Unfortunately, my hip bothered me the rest of the day. Same kind of pain, and not in response to any particular movement.

Today, I haven't felt anything but a few twinges that may have just been psychological. I'm still not sure if yesterday's issues were due to my run that morning, or just lingering from before that.

I haven't decided exactly what I am going to do. I really, really want to run my race.

I'm so annoyed with myself and just life in general. I just HAD to go for that last ten miler.

If I don't have any pain tomorrow, I'll probably go running with the racing team people tomorrow evening. If it flares after that, I might have to sit the chocolate race out.