Just shoot me!

First the good news. I went to see the doctor yesterday and he said that it was actually a good thing that my butt was still hurting and a sign that it is not something more significant. He recommended continuing with the walk/run thing, biking and running in the pool. All good news. The bad news is is that I was using the ball to work deep into my butt muscles to help them release as a deep cross friction massage would do and it really helped however, I apparently went too deep in my hamstring and it really blew them up. They're very tender and now even trying to run a little hurts. Hopefully the icing and heat therapy that I've been doing will help bring it along a little faster but it's very frustrating. I am going to a massage therapist today so hopefully she'll be able to smooth out the aggrevated muscle without making it worse. I cannot believe how much of a bummer this whole thing is turning out to be. It's been almost 2 months that I've been dealing with this and it seems now I may have set myself back a little bit more. I will certainly lose most if not all of the endurance/stamina that I had worked so hard on for the past year. I guess I'm back to where I was a year ago however then my being out of running shape was due to moving and all that that involved and not from an injury. I'm still hopefull that I'll be back to running painfree soon (the doctor is hopefully that within a month I should be painfree) and will start to build my milage again. It's really tough to be missing out on the running events that are our social outlets. Saturday Frank is going to run a fat-ass 50K in Umstead that I had been planning to do as well. Now I'll be staying home with Chico. Okay, enough whining but this seems to be a good place to do it so I'm not totally annoying everyone around me. I didn't realize just how tough it is to not be able to run for any significant length of time and will certainly have more empathy for others in the future that are injured as well. It really sucks!