So what's the gameplan

So last time I spoke I was really down because the hip was regressing and based on the timing it meant the XC season was done. Well it still is done, and I've told the coaches that yes I'm shutting myself down for the season. For me this was a huge thing to do, and as weird as it sounds this was a big step in my career. Its the first time that I've been real with myself, and honest. In the past, with injuries I've spend weeks on end in denial, and bargaining with myself to keep running in some way. But I vow to you guys now so that it is out there "I will not start running until pain is completely gone." When I say completely, I don't mean when it's 90%, it needs to be 100% or I will not run. I'm changing my philosophy from a percentage of how I feel to a binary system, it's either 1, 100% healthy, or 0 which represents 1-99% and I don''t run. I have abandoned the therapy from the PTs in the Sports Med clinic, and the manual therapist that I had been seeing. Why? I realized something, I am a PT student. I have a huge advantage because not only do I know what needs to be done, but I also know my own body better than any PT or other therapist does. I know what I need, who cares about this ultrasound, laser therapy, and deep tissue work. All I need is strength training. Listen the fibres are were torn people, and its been more than 2.5 weeks since the injury. Inflammation is mostly over so you can stop focusing your treatment on it. Collagen has invaded the area and build a tie between the majority of the fibres. I'm in the sub-acute phase so their is no need to keep treating me as if I'm in the acute phase. It's time to do strength training to stress the area. The body reacts by quickly laying down wacks of collagen in a mesh-like formation. This makes the area weak and not functional. What needs to be done is work the muscle so that the collagen goes from being in a random formation to being in a stacked pattern parallel to the line of tension. So I've been hitting the gym hard, then harder, then even harder the last few days. I'm doing full hip flexion with a tense therabands.Sure the first time I did like it hit like a (insert phrase here), but afterward a little better, than yesterday a little better, than today 5 sets of 15 reps hip flexion and you guess it a little better. Now when I say better I don't mean I'm planning on running tomorrow or the day after, it's still far from better, and remember it's either 1 or 0, there is no in-between. But now that I'm taking over the course of this rehab, I feel recovery is possible. Why? Well its pretty simple, I'm the smartest therapist out there - just joking, but not really. I will get better, and who knows maybe with my new rehab maybe I'll run the final two road races of the Niagara-Hamilton Subaru Running Series - a 7k and 5 mile race so that I could double as the champion at the end of the season like last ear and get another sweet prize. The first race will be a long-shot, but anything is possible now that I'm in charge and hitting weights hard, plus the pushups o man the pushups- 250 today after a long and fast swim workout (1000m, 200, 200, 100, 200, 200, 100, 50, 50, 100, 50, 50, 100, 50, 50, 100, 50, 50, 100, 50, 50, 100, 200, 200, 100, 200, 200, 100, 1000m), and about three trillion ab exercises, the 8-pack is on its way.