Small Injuries and Bad Weather

I've been slacking on my runs over the past few days. The weather has been windy, rainy or very cold. It was 16 degrees this morning.

I've also had some general body pains that have me a little worried. The other day I was having back spasms throughout the day. I've strained a muscle near my right hip. My knees, feet and ankles have had little pains now and agin. I wonder if this program is more than my body can handle.

I'm considering dropping my running days from five days a week to four days. I don't want to run myself into an injury, but I still want to make my goal. I think back to the Hal Higdon book that stresses injuries could be products of training mistakes.

A big training mistake is increasing mileage at the same time as increasing speed.

Hey - isn't that what I'm doing?! I'm going to proceed carefully.

posted by jim @ 6:53 AM Permanent Link |