So...

Yeah, so it's been an eternity since I posted. A lot has happened - bought a house, change of career, EliseS now working up here full time, yada yada yada....it's been pretty full on.

Since this is allegedly a running blog, I should bring you up to speed on what's been happening on that front.

I ride with a cycling group on Saturdays which includes a physiotherapist who has worked with national, state and professional teams. I was chatting about what had been going on and he put forward a theory that my ongoing hip issue is in fact related to a back problem around L1-L2. I went and saw him, we worked out that the osteitis pubis has passed, and started to delve into the back.

We've had some good results, to the extent that I'm starting to get a little structure happening now and am reasonably comfortable to run for up to an hour. A fairly slow hour, it must be said (I am some way over racing weight at present), but sub 5 minute km pace nonetheless.

So, at present, I'm kind of working between the bike and running. I'm currently at 5 activities a week (much easier now the Garmin is working properly again), which has been two to three sessions on the bike (with a longish ride on Saturdays building up to around 100k, which does compromise the Sunday run a bit, but I find it a bit better in the morning) and one to three runs a week. Mileage on the bike is up to around 130 to 140k a week, and running will hopefully edge over 30k this week with three sessions for the first time.

So, starting from Saturday:
Sat - bike, 94.27k (into town and back to St Lucia to meet my cycling group, then to Southbank for coffee, and then home via Tennyson and Oxley)
Sun - run, 11.85k (a lap of the north part of the Centenary suburbs)
Mon, Tue - off (bit beaten up)
Wed - run, 12.48k (got completely drenched, just up the Centenary Bike Path to the edge of Seventeen Mile Rocks Park)
Thu (today) - bike, 38.3k (Botanical Gardens return via Centenary Bike Path)

I'm continuing with physio and massage plus assigned back mobilisation exercises - they do seem to be helping. I'm still aware of the hip, but we're getting there.

I have some longer term goals, but the main thing at the moment is to build endurance (hence the long rides), strength, and get some weight off.