“It was good to have positive momentum and just really hurt again. I was just texting Shalane [Flanagan] and I said, ‘I haven’t worked that hard in forever.' emily_infeld
On New Year’s Eve 2018, the Bowerman Track Club standout went to the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado, where she underwent hip surgery to repair a torn labrum, restructure her hip socket, and shave the head of her femur, which had bone spurs. It was a surgery needed after several years of pain in the area and elsewhere in her body. Ultimately, it was also the end of an exhaustive search for the primary source of the injury that plagued her.
After receiving encouragement from teammates like Flanagan, Chris Derrick, and Andrew Bumbalough, as well as guidance fromShe scheduled a scan for her left hip in early December 2018. The doctors quickly confirmed her suspicions of all the issues going on and scheduled surgery just a couple of weeks later.