Where's There's Life There's Hope

I had a physio appointment booked for Wednesday this week. In it I was to report back with how I felt after two or three easy 5k runs. Well after my sad run on Friday I rescheduled the appointment for today, and meanwhile I wasn't going to attempt another run.

The session was soooooo painful, the worst yet for this injury. Not running is doing me more harm than good! My hips and glutes were so tight, and Adam attributes that to all the sitting. Gonna have to watch TV lying down ;-)

The real cause of the ITBFS is my glutus medius are not doing their job, lazy buggers. And so Adam has given me some strengthening exercises for them. They are difficult though, not so much that they hurt but I have to really focus on switching the surrounding muscles off and using the glutus medius instead when I'm doing them.

Although its not looking good he did say if I can do 10k painfree on the weekend then he's happy for me to run the marathon. With my shifts my weekend doesn't officially end until 7am Tuesday, so I'm gonna leave it to the very last minute to allow for maximum recovery.

Thanks so much to everyone for all the wonderful messages of support. They really do lift ones spirits. If I do manage to get to the start line I know all those good vibes will be more than party responsible.