HFS ouch

Nothing quite like waking up being unable to walk down the stairs at midnight because your butt muscles are in a knot.

It got a bit better yesterday, The ride home was really not so bad. Bumps didn't hurt anywhere near like they did yesterday morning.

but holy shit everything was sore. Like beat up contusion sore. from my knee to the middle of my back and spreading at the lower back over to the left side. holy fucking shit that sucked.

But managed to make dinner and get through without a major spasm but just really slowly, like a million years old because the muscles were sore and the priform/psoas/mid-glute whatever is fucked, was threatening to lock the fuck up. Twingy pain on top of dull deep ache. I finally fell asleep maybe 10:30-11pm, not as early as I wanted to but i just couldn't settle/relax. More or less passed out from exhaustion, then boom - WHAT THE FUCK pain at midnight. Like couldn't move. Hobbled, rolled, out of bed, managed to get downstairs, tried some stretching, just simple symmetrical stuff, then noticed in the mirror that I was shaped more like an S with some insane imbalance. And I couldn't straighten out.

At that point i said fuck it and took 800mg of Vitamin I and hobbled back up to bed. and eventually slept, and kept sleeping. Woke up feeling great (relatively - IE i could move w/o stabbing pain and I was back to normal body). Made coffee, didn't want to tempt fate by sitting in the trigger chair and dealing with the emails so I laid back down. Drank coffee, emailed, then when to get back up and KABLAMM - spasm - FUUUUUUCK that one hurt.

But faded reasonably quickly but not completely. Suited up, rode in late.

Def better riding than before. And yeah. Thinking about it, this is the same issue I've always had. Greg W has looked at it and said it is just imbalance in the stability muscles at the top of the glute. I'm not track sprinting monster but I make too much force with the legs relative to the attachment points to the rest of the body. And no, I haven't been doing Yoga, Ti Chi, CrossFit or anything, haven't even been chopping wood lately. Once it settles down, well, gonna be adding, at the very least, daily or every other day plank routine.

Might not have full stability for a month or two, but just hoping for steady improvement and hoping to minimize the impact on training/riding and on paying to participate aka "racing" cyclocross this season.

Plans to spend the day riding today? Nope. Not gonna happen. Fortunately that Crossrip+ makes it possible to get in w/o much stress, the movement seems to help relax and settle the muscle, maybe I'll take the long way home just to get some more pedaling in. That's going to depend on when I can wraps stuff up. okay, "lunch" is over, time to make some phone calls and do a day's worth of stuff in the next couple hours. Would stop if I could, but can't, except on the bikes, Disc brakes are fucking awesome.

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