"It is to the one who endures..."

I guess I should talk about my hip/leg a little.  I still have lots of pain, and my insurance-paid physical therapy sessions are over.  I continue to do the exercises on my own, and I am not running, haven't run in over two months.  It's very frustrating.  My next step, I guess, is to go back to the ortho doctor; see what he says...

I am really trying to find the lesson in all this.  The Buddha said, "Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."  So this is a different kind of endurance for me.  Maybe that's the lesson, the challenge...  Enduring not being able to do endurance events.  Weird.