Well today was the day to test a run, the first since the Badger which was 10 days ago. My right hip and groin still hurt, so I knew this was going to have lots of suckitude. Woke up to heavy rain and thunder, so BE and I cancelled the track run. I waited 30-40 mins for it to clear before leaving.
The plan was to run and walk, as I could, as needed, for up to 4 miles. I was going to loop BP but seeing the construction crew from MSD there diverted me. Something about running by them 4 times weirded me out. Excuses. Either way, I still ran, so why does it matter?
It hurt. Yupper. But I spent time trying to define the pain for the Dr L appointment later this morning. Going even slightly downhill felt better. The pain in the medial thigh right up in the crotch (great place to have a pain, btw) is right at/after toe-off. It's in the muscle that bulges out of the hip/groin area when the leg is full back and ready to come forward again. A hip flexor? The groin pain is only occasional when running, that or it's drowned out by the leg pain.
Two separate pain locations, different types of pain, and different inducers:
1) medial thigh, an adductor? A burning sharp pain, that sometimes seems to move around that area a bit. Running and fast walking hurt. Stairs and adductor-type exercises not so much.
2) groin/lower abs. Almost two areas, radiating out from the same place from the pelvic bone. Planks, push-ups, core work, crouching all set it off.
I was also paying attention to my walk pace. Hennepin needs to be sub 18 m/m. I was able to walk at 17 m/m, not a pushed walk but not a "Sugar" walk either. So I'll need to mix in some running. At Badger, the guy in pink who we jokingly called Tracy (he followed me into Orangeville and saw my crew signs, told him he could use my name to get a sign boost) said he was doing 0.75 mile walk/0.25 mile run. I never considered that option. I was doing the reverse -- longer run than walk. So an option to consider -- 5 min walk/run alternating, for example.
This was a tough workout, and afterwards a lot of hip muscles burned and hurt. Ugh.
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Dr L appointment. He didn't specifically remember my race (he thought maybe Ballwin Tri) (huh?) and I gave him the run-down, pretty much the above. He measured hip flexors, they were equal and OK. He checked for hernia (I think meaning sports hernia) and wasn't sure, but that's out of his ballpark so understandable. Suggested my PCP orders an ultrasound to check, with repair (if indeed that's what this is) being an option that seemed optional.
The leg -- I had a harder time describing this one, and it seemed a bit off the mark. He checked a few things, nothing here and nothing there, then thought maybe femoral nerve. After some work on that, I think it felt different? But it's hard to gauge a running pain when not running, even though I could feel it just moving around on the table. Tomorrow's run will be more telling.
So I left frustrated, like I had no answers. But the frustration was on me, not on him.
Got in the truck and within minutes the new Tool song came on -- Fear Inoculum. I went to text SO, but was driving. He texted me, both listening at the same time. :)
Exhale, expel
Recast my tale
Read my allegorical elegyEnumerate
All that I'm to do
Calculating steps away from you
My own
Mitosis
Growing through
Delusion from mania
Yesterday on the ride home my Nike commute shoes fell apart! The sole of the right shoe separated from the upper. Quickie to Big Shark, buy new Shimano mtb shoes. Back to work briefly, then off to St Mary's for Dr W appt.
It was a short appointment, and it seemed like I had so much I could or should say, but saying it felt empty and useless. Again, this frustration all on me. Yes, I have chest pain. No, not activity induced and in fact just sitting here I feel a 'something'. It comes and goes, waxes and wanes, some days better than others. This near constant headache lately, the gut issues and the recent change in diet to rice, egg, banana, orange, protein powder and yogurt. She suggested a GI, but I've already done that. She suggested a sports nutritionist, but I've already kinda done that.
That feeling that I'm all on my own in this, that there isn't any help, was quite strong today.
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I didn't go back to work after all this, I just wanted to go home. I stopped my Walgreens to get my new nitroglycerin rx (supposedly expires in 6 months, it's been 11), stopped by Fields to get potatoes to test into my diet, went home. Thought about going to Aldi or Dollar Store (why?!), thought I'd have to go to Big Shark for new cleats since mine were initially stuck - 13 years in the shoes!
In the midst of this took a one hour nap 430-530, up to walk dog and change cleats, tried a dinner, then back to bed. Lev texted he was going for sushi, I didn't pick up that it might have been an invite, by the time I realize all this I was already back in bed at 730.
Not feeling good. Stressed. Heavy. Headache. Tired. Just want to sleep.
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