Sunday October 31st will mark 12 weeks since my injury occurred. I am a lot better now. No pain in the glute/hip/hamstring. I still have issues with my right adductor, but I’ve been applying Voltaren (gel) for the last couple of days and it’s clearing up nicely. This morning I could put on below-the-waist clothing items (Matt, this is for you: undergarments!) without having to sit down or lean against something for the first time in close to a month.
Tomorrow it’s going to be 50F at daybreak. Now that I have no pain, it’s so tempting to go out and try a run. But I won’t. I’ll wait until Hallowe’en and even then I won’t try it outside, much as I’d love to commemorate the holiday with a run in Sleepy Hollow. Running someplace nice is too much of a letdown if it doesn’t work out. No, the plan is to try a few laps at my gym’s indoor track — a 12 laps to the mile paperclip featuring 90 degree turns. It’s a horrible place to run anyway, so if I can’t run there, so what. I’ll try maybe half a mile, tops. Just to see.
Then, if that works, I’ll try again — again, inside. I’m not going to run outside until I’m sure I can actually run for more than 10-15 minutes without pain or an altered stride.
I’m dreaming of doing a pain-free two mile run to just beyond Crestwood Station and back. That’s all I want now. It’s what I think about every day while I’m in that stupid pool. Just give me two miles by mid-November. I’m really not asking for so much.
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Races Like a Girl 
I remember the joy I once felt for getting 500 meters on a track. It’s a start. You’ll get there.
While painstaking Im sure, you’ve really done an excellent job of taking care of this injury (mostly) on your own. I’ll have all of my fingers and toes crossed that your first run(s) go off without a hitch (figuratively and literally). See ya soon!
That’s quite a compliment, coming from an actual PT. I know it takes enormous self control to not tell me to just go the frigging doctor already.
That’s promising. Personally I’d be finding a soft grassy (soccer?) field to run on. I recall reading Patti Catalano doing that after a serious injury — starting at 100 metres the first day.