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Monday, February 16, 2009
Slowly getting back to it
After taking 12 weeks off from running and not getting any better, I finally went to the sports medicine doctor. Diagnosis - arthritis in my hip. He said there wasn't much he could do other can prescribe some pain medicine and schedule me for a hip replacement when the pain became too bad. I was not about to go with that diagnosis! Started looking on the internet and found some interesting sites including this one (hip pain causes) .
I've been trying this for about 3 weeks now and have had some drastic reduction in running pain. Put in over 20 miles per week for the last two weeks (although a lot slower than back in November). Have also been back to playing some basketball which makes the hip sore, but manageable. Today I did 0.53 miles of backward walking on the treadmill and 4.31 miles running (including 1 mile barefoot).
Did the Winter Winds 2 mile race yesterday (ran with my wife). Definitely a different perspective starting near the back of the pack and doing 12:25 per mile pace! (not a perspective I want to get used to, mind you ;) ).
I've been trying this for about 3 weeks now and have had some drastic reduction in running pain. Put in over 20 miles per week for the last two weeks (although a lot slower than back in November). Have also been back to playing some basketball which makes the hip sore, but manageable. Today I did 0.53 miles of backward walking on the treadmill and 4.31 miles running (including 1 mile barefoot).
Did the Winter Winds 2 mile race yesterday (ran with my wife). Definitely a different perspective starting near the back of the pack and doing 12:25 per mile pace! (not a perspective I want to get used to, mind you ;) ).
posted by mgreene at 12:59 PM
5 Comments:
I'm cheering for you! I hope you can get better soon, whether it's arthritis or something else.
Thanks, Eric, good luck on you ultra coming up. As the pain subsides, I may join your Athens weekend group on Sunday AM.
I am so glad you know what it is. I am glad you are back out there moving regardless of your speed right now. While we were doing the Half in Jan. I meet the older man in his 60's who had hip surgery 5 months prior to the race. And he was going to be doing the full the next day. He said he could only get in 5 marathons last year due to the surgery and this year he plans to break his record of 45 for the year.
I like that link you found. It makes more sense than arthritis. You are too young and in too good a shape for that just yet. Wait another 30 years, then you can say you have arthritis. I suspect you will lick this problem and be back to fast running later this year.
You're more than welcome to join us! I'll send you an invite on Facebook. It's usually a relaxed, fun, easy run.
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