The Next Step: One foot in front of the other

It's officially official. I have spent $300 on a half-iman training program through Chicago Endurance Sports. From now on it's one foot in front of the other and no looking back! I picked up the schedule and will start training with the rest of the group this Thursday, April 23. Last weekend was officially my last weekend of sleeping in--every Saturday from now until August 2 I will be waking up at 6am to join the training group at Oak Street beach. I can't say I'm looking forward to it.

The other aspect to complicate this experience my injured hip flexor muscle. I've had pain in the area that connects the hip flexor and quad for about a month. I've laid off running for the most part and scaled back to once a week. However, running is my weakest so I'm panicking a little, especially since the pain is not going away. I got new shoes about 2 months ago and I'm worried that the shoes are the culprit. They may have too much stability. So it's time to throw in the towel and spend another $100 on new running shoes and see if that helps. If not, I'm going to stock up on Advil! The bad part is that the pain is pretty bad in the evening and sometimes wakes me up in the middle of the night. As long as my leg doesn't fall off I should be okay. And even if it does, fine, its my ugly leg anyway!

Tomorrow's first group training is a 40 minute run and with a few Advil it should be pretty simple. I'll be back then!