I ran approximately 8 miles today in 1:03:44. I did not get much sleep last night because of a school assignment so I felt really sluggish today. My running class met at the ISU cross country course, and while there I ran the 5k course in 24:34. There are a lot of hills on the course, and I could tell that my back was pretty stiff going downhill but otherwise my back actually felt pretty good.
On the other hand, my leg has not really been making any progress over the last week or so, which is frustrating. I am becoming more and more convinced that there is some sort of impingement on the femoral nerve, as I feel clicking in my hips when I straighten my legs out while in a prone position, I have point sensitivity on one or two of the vertebrae in the lumbar spine, and the location I most frequently feel discomfort in the left quad is right where the femoral nerve exits from under the inguinal ligament. The discomfort also has a distinctively non-muscular feel, more like a pinching feeling, and less like a stretching or compressive force, while on occasion the pain will radiate up through the iliac crest and into my back. I feel like I am just about at the tipping point where I will go to see a doctor for this, as it has been 3 months since I started having problems with my leg, and I have tried just about everything that I know how to do to fix the problem.
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