I agree with what KSH said.
Awww... that's terrible news about your hip. I hope they can find the cause so you can start working on a recovery.

I totally understand about an injury causing you to not be able to race. In 1995 3 weeks before the Nike San Fran. Marathon I blew my knee to bits (not literally, but I finally ran on it enough that the nagging injury to the patella that I'd been ignoring would no longer be silent). The doc told me I could walk the marathon with the knee braced and taped really well without doing any permanent damage, so I wound up walking it.
The mental part is the toughest part. We so want to do things sometimes that our minds won't tell us to stop when we really should (I learned this the hard way). #2 for me above is what gets me in trouble.


Cry if you need to. Get angry. It's OK. If you can't do it at all, it's OK too. What's most important is that you take care of your hip so that you don't damage it even more (if that's possible). I DNF'd from a race for the first time ever last weekend and I know it's OK. There'll always be another race, but you need to do what's best for your body (the mind is a whole other issue ).