Hypochondriac....?

So first of all read my post before this, OUCH!  if you have not done so already, since this is an off shoot or rather an add on to it. So I was having a hip issue that was rather scary since it was in an odd place and very painful for no reason at all. I had not gone running that day, didn't fall or otherwise injure myself. I did walk around for several hours but took breaks here and there so it was a little frightening. I did what every well educated college graduate would do.... I GOOGLED  the problem. I found this article on Hip Pain, which described my pain fairly accurately and is actually part of a blog I follow. I took some great advice from some of my fellow blog friends and did some hip flexor stretches which made it feel better after a bit. 

I was however digging deeper into the best-running-tips.com blog and low and behold this article crossed my screen, Sleeping Foot. I am not kidding when I say that I have a bad circulation problem, it starts with my fingers and only recently have my toes been going numb. I did what the fellow in the blog post did and switched everything yet it still happens.... creepy right? Well I shrugged it off and continued reading when yet again... another coincidence? Swollen Calf Muscle. Ok so I dunno if any of you remember this but a while back I wrote about THIS EXACT SYMPTOM which eventually went away without me wondering what it was but now I am so freaking curious as to if this is what I have... so you see I think I have become a hypochondriac.

On the bright side though, I have stayed off the hip and iced it and the pain is gone. Tomorrow I start my taper down since the Istanbul half Marathon is in two weeks. I am going to stick to easy 3-5 mile runs every other day or so. Nothing to serious. I think one thing that really helped me a lot was that I spend the three days leading up to the half marathon hydrating myself. I drank water like crazy! So I will do that again was well. I am getting pumped! 


PS  I love people who bribe me to read! Check out the 3 Changes Challenge and you will know what I mean! I have even fallen into this bribery Idea and it seems to work pretty well.