KS, good work for you. Run with those young bucks and keep yourself race-ready!

Sierra, is it behind the hip bone, close to the glute?  Strengthening the surrounding muscles will allow it to heal.  I'll be happy to give you the two exercises I do for that.  spareribs823 at gmail dot com.  If it is in front of the hip bone, then I have no experience with that.

Since I now have a recent fiveK to adjust my other paces, I asked a very knowledgeable friend to help me establish what the ranges should be for MP, HMP, tempo, track, easy and slow should look like.  This made me feel more confident if nothing else.  Tomorrow I will try my first 13-mile wave run.  35 miles this week.  Spareribs

Thanks everyone. I think I know what I have: hip bursitis. It matches the description of the pain, which is on the side of the hip, just at a protruding bone. I found two good web sites that describe it well. The second one was particularly helpful. I think the cause may be overtraining and a somewhat weak lower back (after ruling out shoes, surface, and pronation). I probably injured it two weeks ago after running and then backpacking (the same day), and the long hike out. It was several days after that that I felt the pain. Perhaps that was just a little too much and the hip area became inflamed.

I wanted to be careful with any kind of stretching because I know it's not good to do for all injuries (thanks KS and Ribs). For this one I read that crossing your good leg across your other one while pushing up against a wall helps. So far that seems to be OK. I'm also going to start my lower back strengthening exercises again. Thanks also Fred for that website--I'm going to read that closely.

I did run 4.2 miles today; if I felt sharp pain, I would have stopped. But, after a half mile warmup in which I was running sort of gingerly, I hardly noticed my hip. I could still feel an irritation but not serious pain. That's a good sign. The first mile was 10:30, then 10, and the last 2.2, between 8:45 and 9:15. I also did 65 pushups, and 65 other upper body repetitions, and took my dog for a 1 mile walk.

http://www.runnersrescue.com/Running_Hip_Pain_Strain_Injury.htm

http://www.marathon-training-schedule.com/hip-pain-in-runners.html

Ribs; what were the length of those runs?  If those were full mile repeats; I'd say your training pace is a bit soft.   Looks like you had no trouble hitting your set paces.

May get to run tonight after church.  Hope to get a little recovery run in before starting over next week.

That's the attitude Rich. Learn and change as we go.  Good for you.

KS, my program is based on set times off the fiveK and they are probably correct.  The fact that I did them faster does not mean I should do them faster.  Believe me, I knew I had had a workout when I was done.  It wasn't supposed to be a brutal RTYP workout.  My plan involves two good quality runs per week, so I can recover, and do the next workout.  I'm very early in my training and have no need for intense work or oxygen debt in a long run. I would be very fatigued if I did that.  I have lots of time.  Good observation on your part however.  I know you think I have potential.  Spareribs

Nice long run Sierra.  glad to see your injury is coming along fine.  

Watched part of the pre-classic track meet yesterday.  Wow, I'd like to be in the stands of a big time track meet like that.   What great athletes!!

4.5 ezpz miles this morning; hardly worth mentioning.  But it felt oddly good to run 9 min miles this morning.  So much that I'm going to duplicate that work out again tonight.   Tomorrow night I hit the track for some 400 repeats.   First track workout since well before that little fiasco known as Boston.   Looking forward to some sweet agony.

I emailed Paul to check on him and received no response.   Where is our dearest Euphoric?

Have a good day all.

Sierra take care of yourself, at least you have identified the problem.

Ksrunr, that sounds like a really fast run with the younger guy.

Fred your comment about engaging all systems early in training makes sense; I had read somewhere recently that the neurons have to "practise" triggering the fast twitch fibres so they can help out, otherwise they forget how.

First week of my new training program, 35 miles.