Back To It

After 4 weeks of colds, sinus infections, and hamstring issues I got back to some running this past week. I finally figured out that the hamstring thing was not a strain but spasms. I've been doing certain stretches as described on the Younger LEgs blog both pre- and post-running and it has helped reduce the problem. A couple more weeks of just "running" and I should be ready to get back to "training".

Downtime

After successful base-building and hill/resistance periods where I steadily progressed from the slow end of my training ranges to the fast end I began the anaerobic/sharpening phase. After my first tempo run I ended up with a sore quad during the following day's recovery run. A couple days of ice fixed that up. After the next week's tempo effort I came down with a cold. For a week. Coincidence? Now that the cold is over I tried an easy jog and my left hamstring tightened up. I need ot take next week off for other reasons so it's no going to be almost a month long or longer break at the least. I had planned on running a 5k on Thanksgiving morning but that was right in the middle of my week-long cold so I had to skip that. Based on my training and other factors I was hoping to run about 19:10. Hopefully I'll get back to some running mid-December and be able to start a new training cycle with the New year.