After good 2022 - managed to win the 65+ 3000m at the Hayward Classic and World Senior Games - I started to have injury problems.
Even through 2022, I had problems running more than 8 miles, when pains in outside of bottom of right leg and glute would hurt. I also fell over sprinting flat out on the track warming up in the May of that year when the right leg sort of collapsed.
Was fit at the start of 2023 but the problems from 2022 began to come on earlier and earlier in a run. Physiotherapy seemed to give short term relief, but it was shorter and shorter lived.
Finally at the physio, we found that the right leg was so non-functional before treatment, that I couldn't do a single step-up on that side. Some sacro-cranial work that day restored the ability to do that by the end of the session (it seems a little weird, but my guy does a lot of work with the head and neck, and I've had marked improvement in a session just from that).
Looking back at a few things, there were some signs: when I did lateral hopping on the right leg, my body was leaning to the right; in film of the Hayward Classic, I could see that rather than the right leg being fairly central under my body in the stance phase, I was lurching to the right and landing with the right foot in a plumb line straight under the right hip, with the body leaning to the right.
Funnily enough, I tried the adduction/abduction machine at the local gym, and with my right leg I couldn't move into abduction on the minimum setting, whereas I could do 30lbs comfortably with the left leg. Seated single leg press was also weaker with the right leg.
I've now been on a program of alternating gym (30 min on Elliptical or Zero Runner, then weights) with short runs (2 miles generally, and then trying for 3 miles on the track on Sunday).
Still a long way to go with right leg strength, but at least I can do some minimal running without it being too painful.
Today after a half-mile jog manage 3 miles in 25:11, which is the best for about six months. Now all we need to do is to get about 2 minutes per mile faster - going to a long road, but at least I'm running again (sort of) which I was starting to fear I might not be able to do again...