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@Granny Di and
@wcgirl ,
So pleased to get some news from you - my fellow bonesmarties from last spring. I see you have both been busy. Granny Di, I'm sure you'll recover from too much activity and will achieve your skiing target of 20 km. The stiffness and pain is probably all soft tissue. Resting is the answer.
... and while you've been active, I have also challenged that "sort of" new hip. Back on the exercise bike after about 20 weeks, swimming after 3 weeks, real cycling (longer distances) after 4 weeks, back to work - full time - after 6, cycling to work (33 km one way), travelling to Cairns, Australia, in July. My husband bought a holiday house there and I help him follow up the furnishing of the new house, shopping for a few things, a lot of walking with heavy stuff in the rucksack, back to work after this holiday.
July/August - slowly back to running (I'm a marathon runner with 10 marathons): phasing it in with the run-walk-run method, then increasing distances.
Then in January travelling to New Zealand - had a phantastic time in the New Zealand summer and also saw the scenery where the films Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit were made. Encouraged hubby to come for a 2 hour hike with me to a waterfall near the Ruapehu mountain in the northern island - then on the way back: flying to Cairns Australia again: We had to see that everything was fine with the house and actually stayed in it this time. Had an 8km jog along the Esplanade in Cairns in tropical temperatures. Home again and getting used to the freezing cold of a German winter.
February: Winter half-marathon in the forest near Mörfelden (another town near where I live and around 20 kms from Frankfurt); finsihed in 2 hours 15 minutes. It was actually warmer (12°C) during the run and it rained. Actually cycled there and back, and it was the wind that was bothering me on the way back; my legs were just fine.
Now the overdoing part of it: Not the actual half-marathon. After that I felt fine. It was when I was running the Tuesday after that Sunday in the forest near Langen in my lunch hour as usual. After that run, my left inner thigh hurt a bit. It meant I was back to running too soon. So I just had a rest from running for a week and did other things just walking, swimming and exercise on the machines at the gym. I remembered the bonesmart rules. Just rest when it hurts. It worked. Now I'm fine and today I ran 10 km in the forest. It was phantastic - quick and no pain.
Granny Di I like that bird in your Avatar. Is it a bull finch? Are they common in Canada where you live? I like song birds. I see them when I jog along. In the Rhine-Main area we have blue tits, great tits, gold finches, robins, black caps, chaffinches and many more.
Hope you'r out of pain by now and wish you all the best - Constanze
Canada
to ease the aching muscles. I found my energy level increased around 10 months too - this surgery sure has an energy drain. I feel like I have aged 10 years in one. Maybe in my sub conscious I just want to keep hubby doing household chores like he had to last winter. 
There is a fine line between doing too much and not doing enough - i.e. too much sitting. 
Thanks for stopping by! I write these posts to keep track of my progress... or lack of. 
