“To know your limits…

...it is sometimes necessary to exceed them.”

So runs an old and fundamentally true bromide, and it seems to have been borne out yet again.

After a week’s hiatus from 6/7-14, what began as a mild twinge/pain in the right medial/mid thigh on 6/18 blossomed into limiting pain in the hip flexor area by 6/21.

Walking was pain-free after four days rest and a 20 minute pool run on 6/25, but it was all I could do to get through a two-miler on 6/27, let alone walk normally afterward. This pattern has repeated itself several times over and it is apparent that extended rest is necessary.

The cause was probably a too-intensive hill workout (8 x ~25m vertical gain) on 6/16; the descents likely did the damage, despite the fact that I was careful to control my stride. I’d done 5 reps on 5/31, but there was too much of a gap in between even for a modest increase, let alone to 8; 3 or 4 would have been enough.

Update(s) to follow, as developments warrant – where have you read that before?