Risky experimentation: a run and a nesquik coffee

Fed up with not running, I decided yesterday was as good a day as any to give a test run another go.
I have a nagging worry that I should keep from pounding my hip until I am absolutely 100% sure that it is completely healed.  I also have this hugely looming concern that just one mile too many will set me back weeks in returning to my former runner self (again).

But, my current frame of mind is this:  I need to run.

I am treating it as an experiment.  And really, there are only two potential hip-related results in reintroducing the activity:
a. My hip will hurt.
b. My hip will not hurt.

If a turns out to be the case, I honestly need to stop playing and go get an MRI to scope out any cartilage tears or bursitis or whatever. I have definitely rested enough for a hip flexor tear to heal.  Waiting and waiting and waiting for a muscular injury to heal when it is actually not a muscular injury at all would just be a giant, continued waste of time.
And if b is true, well jeez I'd better start taking advantage of my healthy body and find my bliss again.

So anyway, I ran 4 miles yesterday.  It was awesome.
Day after results: slight sensitivity in both my hips (wait what?).  Not enough to send me to the big magnetic donut, but enough to let me know I need to proceed with caution.
I am only going to let myself run every other day while I am still testing things out and I am going to get closer to my foam roller than I ever have before.

I'm trying not to let myself get too excited about running again.  I don't want to be too optimistic and end up overdoing it.  But it's hard to contain that excitement.   Something magical happens when I run.  I feel at home in my own body again.  I felt so within the very first minute of that run.  It's a good feeling.



Anyway, my other risky experiment:  nesquik coffee.

I've had this (weird?) habit of mixing ovaltine into my coffee for a while.  It's good, you should try it.  But we've been out of ovaltine for a while and I keep forgetting to pick some more up, so I've just been rocking a cup (or two or three) of black coffee or with added soy milk (so much tastier than lactose-free milk in coffee in my humble opinion) lately, depending on my mood.
But today I wanted ovaltine in my coffee, god dammit.  We didn't have any, of course, so I added powdered chocolate nesquik.

Result?
Interesting.  Chocolatey.  Not ovaltiney but decent enough... I guess.
I think tomorrow I'll stick to the black stuff, though.