What should I tell you about injuries, other sport or travel?
Short answer
Anything that changes which days you can run or how hard: a current or recent injury, a health condition, other sports you play, days that are always busy, and trips or events in the weeks ahead.
Key points
- Injuries and health conditions come first.
- Fixed commitments and other sport change which days suit hard sessions.
- A line or two is plenty; plain words are best.
Worth mentioning
- Injuries: anything current, or anything that has come back more than once (shins, knees, Achilles, calves).
- Health: conditions or medicines that affect exercise, such as asthma or diabetes.
- Other sport: football on Saturdays, a gym class on Tuesdays. Hard days next to hard days are what the plan tries to avoid.
- Your week: days you can never run, or one day with more time for a long run.
- Dates: holidays, work trips, or a family event when training will be hard.
Examples
"Sore left Achilles last winter, fine now. Five-a-side every Wednesday evening. Away 12–19 May with no running."
"Asthma, well controlled. Long runs only possible on Sundays."
What the plan does with it
It works your notes into the schedule: it moves hard sessions away from other sport, keeps travel weeks light, and goes more cautiously around old injuries.
In your plan
Your notes are read with the rest of your answers when the plan is built. You can add to them later when you edit your plan, and the schedule is rebuilt around the change.
When to talk to a professional
If you have pain right now, especially pain that is sharp, gets worse as you run, or makes you limp, get it checked before you start.
Related questions
Missed a training day? What to do next
Skip it and pick up the next scheduled session. Do not squeeze the missed run into the next day or double up. One missed day costs you nothing; cramming two into one is how injuries start.
Read the full answerWhy are rest days part of the plan?
Because fitness is built while you recover, not while you run. Training is the signal; rest is when your body responds to it. Rest days also lower the risk of the overuse injuries that end many training plans.
Read the full answerCan I keep doing my other activities?
Yes, and you should say so. Every plan's last question asks about anything else going on, such as another sport, a class or shift work, and the plan is built around it rather than on top of it.
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