The Best- Laid Plans ....

Here we are at Thanksgiving and the run- focused plan has gone to hell in a hand- basket.

There are three main reasons for this:

1. I'm not really in the mood ... I've got a lot of things going on outside of triathlon which are more important, I haven't got any racing planned in the near term and next season is still over six months away.
2. Winter has come a bit early. For the last three weeks, the daytime high has struggled to reach 40F and most of my running has been done in the high 20s. I'm struggling to run at anything faster than 7 minute miles for intervals and my 'long' runs are topping out at about 9 miles as I don't want to be outside any longer.
3. ...... and last Sunday, I pulled my hamstring playing soccer. Well, actually I pulled my hamstring warming-up for my game!

With respect to item #3, I've managed to start running again yesterday and today but, I'll probably miss tonight's game as I can't sprint or really stretch yet.

This is probably my "favorite" injury .... I pull my left hamstring every six months or so and it generally screws things up for two or three weeks ...... I'm going to build more flexibility work into the next phase of training.