God damn it. I think I am injured again. Went out for a leisurely five miler yesterday afternoon around the National Mall and felt great the whole way. when I was almost back to school I ran into a friend who is leaving town and we chatted for fifteen minutes or so and then we I started walking towards to the gym I had pretty severe pain in my right glute. Sucked. Double sucked because I had to ride my bike four miles home after that and it hurt pretty much the whole way.

Anyway, I think this is an itbs thing. I hope not, but I fear it is. I did the whole RICE plus massage the area when I got home last night and figured I would see how it felt today and make a decision about running or not. Well today it still hurts pretty bad and I think running is out for today and probably tomorrow. I was really looking forward to hitting thirty miles this week, but that just isn’t going to happen now and I have to be ok with that. Its good to set goals and to try and stick to them, it isn’t good to run through injuries. Especially not ones that hurt this bad.

So the revised plan for the rest of the week is to take today and probably tomorrow off. I’ll see how it feels on Saturday and if it isn’t killing me, I’ll do a short run, if it is still hurting, I will take the whole rest of the week off and start fresh on Monday. This is a long haul and I have to be ready to deal with these set backs along the way.