Meg... it's not getting worse. (same with your knee? sorry to nag)

No, not getting worse and even getting a bit better albeit verrrry slowly. What are the specifics on your injury? Is it definitely piriformis or more a hamstring thing? What caused it to get better before? I ran through both bouts of piriformis. The first lasted several months and the second only about a month. I found that stretching helped a lot, as did adductor and abductor exercises (that machine at the gym that works both was a life saver to me). I would say that if it is getting better, just keep at the running and whatever else you are doing to help.

ok, will itemize a little. Slo_hand... I'm really interested in your comment about 6 day a week running helping w/injuries. I'm 4-5 days. Wait to increase till it's better? Diet.. just generally healthy? I am getting slowly better, though it's been longer than 2 weeks. Do you think it matters a lot that this is a repeat injury? 6 mo. the first time.. then again in July, not as bad, & now, again, not as bad. Hmm. the lesson... don't ever listen to my advice!

Most are under the assumption that high mileage leads to injuries. Rather it is the building of miles. Although I don't have the time to point you to specific studies re: this they can be easily found on the internet. This seems to also include frequency. One theory re: frequency is daily workouts delivers nutrient rich blood to the area's being worked. It also brings the bodies natural anti-inflamatories. I'm not making a recommendation but just throwing this out for something for you to look into. Keeping your current MPW, cut a daily run or two back and just take a little 2 miler for the 6th day. There are tons of theories and everyones body responds differently.......for me it is usually harder to come back after a non-running rest day than had I gone out for a really easy run. Granted.....I experienced the oopposite to what I just said just this week but that was fatigue....not injury. (fatigue is a pre-cursor to injury though) If you have access to a phyiscal therapist I'd take your repeat qx to him. If you think your injury has been getting better you could always try 2 - 3 days off completely and see......????? Bottom Line.....Injuries suck ! It takes years and years to harden yourself against injuries. Diet.......I really do believe in this one. Look up the super foods and make sure some of them are part of your daily diet. If your over 40......spinach every single day. Better than milk for making bones strong, besides a whole host of other benefits. My home is never without Fresh Fruit, spinach, yogurt, oats, and tea. I get my junk food.....DQ, pizza and Beer for sure. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=43 dg......I realize this is all pretty vague but that's kinda the nature of injuries........I can only go back to my HS CC Coach and his belief......injury proofing yourself.

For clarification, in this thread, most folks think of spareribs as "SR" .... and I seem to be "SR" in other parts of this board. Here I am "SRL" or "smartass".

Ahhh, I see....Smart@ss, not to be confused with Hard@ss.....thanks for the clarification....

8 miles on the TM. No fancy stuff like Holly but I did 4 miles slow 5.4mph (11? pace) and one mile at 6.7mph (8:57) one mile slow again, one mile at 7.0mph (8:35 pace) then one mile slow. Kind of a "mini-wave run" but I'd hate to say that cause then I would owe the inventor some royalties. w.r.t hill sprints: I enjoyed them until I torqued my foot and had to take a week off running. Now all we need is a Bad@ss.

Everyone is writing @ss. My brain processes that as at-ss. Bad@ss, Dumb@ss, Hard@ss. They sound like smeagol/gollum is talking. Bad-at-ss. I do prefer @ss to a$$. Bada-money.

That's the $h!t !

3.25 very slow miles on the TM at the gym. I was visiting with John the entire time, so never did move out of my warm up pace to a quicker running pace. But that's okay. We had a good 35 minute visit catching up on stuff.

Y'all are cracking me up today (said in Billy Mays full voice style). One of my colleagues will raise her two pinky fingers like Mini Me when she is annoyed with us. She's flipping us off in Metric says she.....it confuses the foo out of folks when she does that in public, but we get the point. Fatozzig! The pecker story made me laugh...oh dear. My mother's first language is German and Swiss--German at that. Many words do not translate at all and oh the stories I could tell.

All I can say is one day without Roy and his Woody, and all hell is breaking loose on this thread!