I think the hip injury is gone. Is was fascitis, three years of stretching and some brutal friction release and it looks like it's gone. I found a totally new way to be in pain too...deep fascia release. Spending up to 20 mins with someone's elbow in the front of your hip.

I made a jump in milage recently and found that my lower back problems are causing my left leg to overcompensate and produce pain through the lateral retinaculum. Oddly this is what was happening in my right leg ten years earlier. So far I'm just keeping the 11m runs going and trying to avoid getting into a situation where it's badly microtorn. Davis' rule says it will become more resistant over time, but the pattern of overloading will be long term because of how my spine is changing as I age.

Its always a very lonely battle, that's what I've noticed as I've careered from one injury issue to the next. You fight it in your mind totally alone. It's a fight to do what you can and not what you want. I had gained all the underpinning knowledge to diagnose problems and prescribe remedial action a long time ago, so there's nobody in the world to make decisions on my behalf. The physio giving the damning verdicts and prescribing efficacious remedies is now me. I honestly don't know why the best I can do within the limitations of my biomechanics isn't good enough. I slowly eek more and more out of myself as if the definition of maximum is somehow flexible or unlimited.