I found for some reason I am considerably sore this morning after doing 5 miles (1 mile up from my norm on mondays) … my right hip especially seems to be sore. Regardless, I think the back pain that held up my 20-miler on Saturday has subsided, since I was able to run a little faster this morning without issue. Again, i’m still not sure what caused the pain or issue, but we’ll hope it doesn’t return.

There isn’t too much else happening right now, just basically giving up my step-back week since I missed that run. I’m finding that I really am beating myself up over missing that, when I know that I made the right decision … I see the way i’m running now and try to envision whether i’d be feeling as good as I do if I would have done that run, somehow I don’t think so. This is what experience has brought me, so anybody reading that needs to make that difficult decision of whether to run with pain or not, DON’T DO IT. Its worth taking the day off, and coming back to fight the next week then to put yourself out totally, and put yourself in distress. If I think about how I felt yesterday, I struggled through the 10 miles with it being sore, I couldn’t imagine it with the pain.

At least this week its going to be nicer than last week, and not quite as hot. I am a little busier than I had been, lots of appointments (which is why I scheduled it as a stepback), but we’ll get through. I did get on the scale this morning, and thankfully i’m still at 194.8, which is only a pound more than I was last week. I didn’t do great eating this week, and without the fat-burn run saturday, I didn’t expect a great result. Regardless it has kicked me back into gear with the diet as well, we can’t put that weight back on, i’m too close to the marathon now ….