Today was a bad day for my running career. I set off this morning to do the 8-mile run scheduled for today. It rained for the last two days in Berkeley, so I headed for a trail that I knew would be dry. It's a paved trail but has nice gravel shoulders for the most part.
I was only 2 miles into the run when I started feeling something in my hips. This something soon escalated to near-pain, so at mile 4.5, I forced myself to stop running. By that point it was hard to even walk. And because of the route I had selected, I still had 2 miles to go before reaching the parking lot, so I had a nice, long walk to feel the pain and think about everything it would mean for my upcoming half marathon and training schedule.
The pain is now mostly in my right hip, which is interesting because it was my left hip that was injured earlier this year. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised given that my hips were starting to ache on the treadmill just a few days ago. For now, all I can hope is that the pain is just a muscle strain that needs a few days rest.
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