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<\/a><\/p>\nWhich means I’ve had to do more of this than I’d like.<\/em><\/p>\n Things I’ve done since then:<\/p>\n Week 1: attempted to ignore it and still continue to run every day, but much lower mileage and easy pace.\u00a0 It was still very minor and I figured it would go away quickly.<\/p>\n End of week 1: race a half marathon and be completely and totally exhausted after… hip was a little cranky to start the race but felt ok during and after… til the next morning.<\/p>\n Week 2: Took the week COMPLETELY off running, just 5 hours of biking and swimming (clocking my longest swim evar with 7300-ish meters, woo!).\u00a0 Saw the chiropractor and she affirmed my decision to give it a rest for this week.\u00a0 I felt good about being conservative with my hip and by Sunday, it felt pretty healed.<\/p>\n Week 3: Decided to move to the 3-day per week training run program.\u00a0 Hip slightly cranky to start each run but feels alright during and after – I complete an easy 4 miler, a life-affirming 4 mile tempo with 1 mile warmup\/cooldown, and a darn decent 18 miler, as well as some cross training.\u00a0 Felt like things were getting back to normal.<\/p>\n Week 4: Hip doesn’t feel great to start this week.\u00a0 I made it through the run on Monday and still by Thursday my hip hates me.\u00a0 I see the chiropractor and she pokes and prods it again and says nothing serious is wrong, it’s core instability and this is the weird way it’s manifesting.\u00a0 At first I find it hard to believe, but then I realize a) how many times I’ve put “do the dozen” on my weekly list and failed and b) biking outdoors and swimming both help core and I’ve not done much of either since October.<\/p>\n The prognosis is: no more than 5 miles at a time every other day, and core work every other day for 10 days before I try a long run.<\/p>\n This week, week 5, it’s Friday.\u00a0 I’m now 4 weeks and 5 days from the first twinge and I STILL had to cut a run short yesterday morning. The good news is that I’m re-evaluating everything in my life and sorting it into two categories – is it good for the hip or bad for the hip?\u00a0 I’m making changes to the way I sit at work, at home, sleep, and I’m being thorough about warmup, icing, stretching, and rolling.\u00a0 Totally things I should be doing anyway but it being at the forefront of my mind will hopefully help me not slack on this stuff again.\u00a0 Just finally today I’m feeling the fruits of my labor here.<\/p>\n The bad news is that in the last 4 weeks I’ve had miserably low running miles and things have gone from meh to bad to ok to worse to hopefully improving but not great yet.\u00a0 To be fair, until about a week ago, we were just playing the wait and hope it will go away game, but it’s definitely not encouraging to have babied it this much and still be having issues.\u00a0 I’ve ran 7 times in the last month.\u00a0 That’s not much for marathon training season.<\/p>\n