Week Three - Oh crap.

This week got off to a good start.  I went out for the group run on Monday, started slow and felt cold, but finished strong and felt great.

Tuesday was my cross training day and I headed to the gym for 45 minutes on the bike.  So far, so good.

Tuesday night, I ended up working until 11pm. 

Wednesday morning, I was supposed to get up and take the bus to another town for a meeting at 6:30am. I woke up feeling craptacular.  The work trip didn't happen, and I spent the day feeling under the weather and missed the group run that night.

Thursday, I made a trip to another town for work, was able to take a break for yoga in the afternoon, but because I was still not feeling 100% and it wet snow was falling from the sky, I decided not to run. 

I was supposed to take the bus home at 11:15pm which would get me in at 12:45am.  Not great, but better than driving on slippery roads.  It seemed like a good plan.  The bus got half way home, when the driver got a call from dispatch and we had to go back to pick up more passengers.  I got home at 2:45am.  Ok, i could deal with this on a good week, but when I was already not feeling well, and had already had a late work night, it completely wiped me out on Friday, and another day passed without a run.

Saturday, I was determined to get out for a good long run.  I wanted to be out for about 2 hours, and had a route in mind to take which would take me down hill, along the river for a loop and then back up hill to home.  I was excited to head out and feeling good that I was no longer intimidated by THE HILL.  On the way down the hill, I was feeling the odd twinge in my right hip.  It was pretty icy, and I was being as cautious as I could be.  When I got onto flat ground, it felt better, and I kept going.  As I got to my turn around point, I stopped to use a washroom in a coffee shop.  When I started running again, something wasn't right.  My hip was feeling really stiff.  I kept going, hoping that I just needed to warm it back up, but the pain became more consistent, and then spread through my hip to my lower back.  I tried a couple of walk breaks, but when I got close to the rec centre, I knew I was done. 

For the first time ever, I had to call for a ride home.  I couldn't make the last 7K.

Sunday morning I was still feeling stiff, but went out for a walk in the snow with the BF.  It felt good to be outside, and because the snow was deep, it made for a good cardio workout, and convenient intermittent icing as I rested and lay down in the snow (sorry, no pictures of that).

When I got home from the walk, I got out a tennis ball and rolled around on it to massage the muscles around my hip.  The area where it was first sore at the front of my hip is feeling a lot better, but I think I managed to bruise my tail bone when I was rolling around on my back.

This was just not my week!

Yoga today, heading to the eliptical tomorrow, and have the first available physio appointment booked for next Monday.