2019 Slow Start

So far this year, I've gotten a cold, then the flu, a bacterial lung infection, a kidney stone, and pulled a bone fragment off my knee in a cross country ski fall in Yosemite. It's really gotten me off to a slow start. I'm only a little behind last year on running miles and slightly behind on swim yards, but I'm WAY behind on biking. Part of that is a very wet winter that hurt commuting miles. Anyway, I have had some good moments. After being off of running for most of a month, and doing some careful rollering and psoas stretches and wake-up exercises for my glutes, I had a remarkable stretch of 76 straight miles of running w/o my psoas irritation. The last of those 76 miles was a 16 mile run up nearly to Summit Road in Fall Creek. That did seem to put me back into the usual zone of getting some irritation after 3-5 miles or so, but I got in a 10 mile run/hike in Fall Creek this past Sunday without much trouble. A good diagnostic of whether I'll have trouble, is a tightness betrayed by the snapping hip syndrome. Anyway, I'm back to health now, encouraged, and eager to test myself with the SCTC gang at the Double DipSea Race this coming Saturday.