Six days until the race! I've been wildly busy with work and life, and once I added physiotherapy for my creaky SI joint, I've had no time to blog.
Fortunately, I have basically negative two readers at this point, but for you, I apologize for keeping you hanging.
Training has been going well. I never thought eight miles would feel like an easy, relaxing run, but nevertheless, there it is.
Rehab's been interesting. The problem is that my lower core is weak, despite my efforts, and my left hip rotates forward, and then my tailbone pulls out of alignment. This makes everything hurt, and screws up my stride.
So, part of the work is for the nice physiotherapists to pop my hip back into place. Today, that involved also realigning the symphysis pubis joint, which cracked painfully and loudly, like a bunch of firecrackers went off in my pants. I saw stars, and then yelled, and then apologized. But then, when I stood up, I felt lighter and straight.
This is apparently what normal feels like.
The rest of the work is retraining the glutes and core so they can stabilize my pelvis when I run. Lots of marching bridges and variations on leg lifts, and lots of getting my tired hamstrings to stretch just a bit further.
I think it's helping, but I also think it will be a while coming back. The PT says essentially we have to retrain my body to recognize normal as normal, instead of settling back into the misalignment that I've had for months.
The race is Saturday!
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