Hi Guys..i am training for my first Marathon , to take place on May 5th. I am using the Hal Higdon Novice 2 plan, and have so far made it to the end of week 10 ( please see attached image).

After my long run of 17 miles, I noticed a pain in my gluteus/hip, which presented it's self around mile 13 of the run.

I pushed through and completed my run, but felt pain in that area after.

The pain subsided almost completely after taking a combination of icing, ibuprofen and co-codomol , but came back once the effects of the pain killer wore off.

I am now about to enter week 11 ( 5 miles, 8 miles, 5 miles and 18 mile long 'run') to start tomorrow, but really do not want to make this pain any worse.

I am a novice runner, and am desperate to run my marathon, but now need to modify the training if I am to avoid making this injury even worse, but stand a chance of running on race day. There are 8 weeks before race day.

I ran my long run on saturday ( it is monday today), and spent the entire weekend and most of today resting and icing.

I would really appreciate any feedback as to how best to modify this schedule to accommodate for this injury ( I havn't taken any pain killers and my leg feels better than it did after I finished the long run).

I am hoping that it will take me no more than a week or a little longer to be recovered, but it's really too hard to tell right now.

Here is the training plan, of which week 11 starts tomorrow.




Hal Higdon Marathon 2 by Dipak49ers, on Flickr