American Discovery Trail: Pushing Through Injury

Corn

I first posted about my hip injury on the 12th of this month, but I suspect by then that it had already been hurting for at least a week. It was the kind of injury that happens sometimes now - I have no idea what caused it, but one day something started to hurt, just because. It is healing very slowly. I tried to keep walking, but I noticed several times that when I walk, it aggravates my hip. It does not bother me much as I walk, but when I finish walking a good distance, I can barely bend over and then straighten up again.

Because of that, I have cut my walking back to six or seven thousand steps per day, and that helps. Nevertheless, the healing is very slow.

This segment of the trail goes south and west from Waterloo, Iowa to Marshalltown. In between, we pass through Hudson, Voorhies, Reinbeck, Morrison, Grundy Center, Beaman, and Conrad. Combined population of the seven towns, per the Internet, is about 8,350, hence the picture of a cornfield.

My total steps per day, since day one, are sliding down close to 10,000 per day (now at 10,200), but hey, I'm getting older, and it's getting harder. I'm going to get past this hip thing and get those numbers back up.