Yeah, yeah, two posts in two days

So, did the pilates class yesterday (substitute instructor who wasn't quite as tough as the usual one, but certainly very easy to look at) which was fine, considering I hadn't been for two weeks while we were interstate. The real trick is going to be getting myself there on Saturday morning to double up.

Also walked the around 8km home from St Leonards, which included some very limited jogging. I use River Road, and cut through Hodgson Park, which cuts through to the top of Tambourine Bay (veterans of the Striders' Ten Bridges run will know it). Hodgson Park has a great little technical single track through it, with a nice soft leaf surface with rocks and tree roots to make sure you're paying attention. It's only 700 metres or so, but I can never help myself through there, I have to run it - it's great fun. Part of the thing that's really got me ticked off with not running is not being able to get out and do some trail running - always puts a smile on my face. I live pretty close to the Great North Walk, where it starts to get interesting, and I've really been hanging out to put on a backpack and disappear up there for a few hours.

Got on the scales - 82.4kg. Work to be done there, but I just need to be disciplined with food and stay off the grog. I need to be under 75kg before I start up again, the less weight the better.

Woke up this morning with some pain at the top of the right femur - it's interesting that I'm not getting the pain or 'unstable' feeling through the right adductor or down the centre of the right thigh anymore. I think the osteitis pubis has backed off considerably, but there is another problem in the right hip joint, either in the joint itself or the surrounding connective tissue.

I'll start back on the joint food tonight, and see how that goes. Can't hurt.

Get back into it, ya sook

As you've probably gathered by the lack of posting, the recovery's not been going so well. Still getting pain, but it seems quite localised to the right hip joint now. Colin from CR has referred me to Brizza, a physio who does biomechanical work, to see if we can't get to the root cause. I see him on Monday.

Must admit I have kind of withdrawn from the running community over the last few months - it's been hard knowing we're heading into another road running season and I still don't have much clue as to when I'll be back out there. I've tried the old 3 to 4km run here and there, but still get this issue come up after about 10 minutes or so - nowhere near as bad, but enough to suggest I'm probably worsening things.

The other bonus item is that I've stacked on a heap of weight - about 10kg since September. I was probably going okay until the wedding, but that combined with Christmas really did me in. I've made a resolution that I'm not to have another beer until I get back under 75kg, and to be really careful with my eating.

I've started doing some pilates classes at the gym next to work, which seem to be helping, and using the elliptical trainer to build some basic cardio fitness. I guess where I go with that depends on the discussion with Brizza next week, but I would like to be in reasonable trim when I do actually hit the road again.

Catching up with a heap of the crew at Six Foot Track on Saturday has given me a bit of a taste of things again - truth be told I was very close to putting in a late entry on Friday, as I reckoned I could have bludgeoned a 6:59, but do so would have been madness, probably set me back another six months - and it was good to see everyone. You'll probably see me around CR a bit more, at a few more events and I will endeavour to post a bit more often, if only to whinge and carry on (so, much like before, but without the running details...for a while).