I didn't pull anything i otherwise feel great my hip is randomly tight and intermittently hurts when i move a certain way and it happened for no reason, my marathon is on Sunday. Should i take the 4 miles i planned on doing tomorrow off and then do 1-2 on Saturday in hopes this is completely gone? I've heard that for some reason random pains surface during a taper, is this common?
Yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Ran Boston, about a week before my knee randomly started hurting, nothing major but it would just bother me after and sometimes during runs. Once the race started I didn't feel it at all.
Weird stuff always happens during tapers. Maybe we always feel such random pains, but during harder training can say "that's due to the 20 x 800 workout I did yesterday", but during the taper there is nothing to blame. Just a hypothesis.
I think I have had some random new pain somewhere in my lower body during 75% of my 20 marathon tapers. None were an issue on race day. These "non-issue" pains were 1 to several days of duration and would come and go. I differentiate these from pain I recurrently had during training which indeed WAS an issue.